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Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

by Bereavement Black Borders

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LORD TENNYSON.

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In the full light of the white plenilune,
The Poet passed away;
Listening to spheric music, in the swoon
Of mortal life's decay.
Nor now for him the worship of the crowd,
But heaven's mystic light ;
Nor now for him the gold-god of the proud,
But th' eternal night.
The night that may break into azure life,
The life guessed, but unknown ;
Far from the whirl of earth and its vain strife,
'Vithin th' immortal zone.
Is there a thought of evil in the heart,
Breathe it not o'er this grave.
He gave to all the world his better part,
1ln ail11mttttll uf Yet still was not its slave.
Slave? No! but, guided by the gift divine,
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Not Poverty's grim shroud IJ!ade song supine, .
He rose above the world:
' 'Twas not in chaos hurl'd.
THF, RNGJ,ISH THEOCRITUS,
Not in the slough a Chatterton once found,
Bor n, Aug. 5th, 1809- Died, 7th Oct., 1892. With song-gift as sublime:
Not in the chains that gyved a Burns to ground,
Below avenging Time.
Now all the idle vampires of the State
Make Fashion fill his fame.
H e only lives and is supremely great,
'Who lives 'yond praise or blame.
As when the red sun sets upon the -shore,
His life has set,-is won !
The music of his soul for evermore
' Ve hear beyond the sun.
ERNEST STAVELEV STERNE.
Ent. Sta. Hall.) [ONE PENNY
Published and Printed by STERNE & Co., Red I.ion Court, Fleet Street, E.C.
In Memory of Lord Tennyson :J

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poem by Ernest Staveley Sterne