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In his verse, "Memoriam," he has embalmed the memory of those of our early female friends he most esteemed. He rather courted this association in the individual than in the collective assembly for he was not fond of crowds, either in society, or the ordinary assemblages of men and women.
Throughout the inexhaustible stores of poetry and song is there anything more exquisitely touching than the lofty and inspired dirge wailed out in tremulous tones in memoriam and the healthful words, "Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind." But to return to the Lawson homestead.
The tree had blossomed; it had almost, to keep up the metaphor, set; but by far the greater part of the fruit was yet to ripen, and very much of it was to be of quality not inferior, of quantity far greater, than anything that had yet been given. The Princess and In Memoriam, the two first-fruits of this later crop, were certainly not the least important.
He rated one song of Lovelace above all his lyrics, and, in fact, could no more have written the Cavalier's To Althea from Prison than Lovelace could have written the Morte d'Arthur. "It is not reasonable, it is not fair," says Mr Harrison, after comparing In Memoriam with Lycidas, "to compare Tennyson with Milton," and it is not reasonable to compare Tennyson with any poet whatever.
In one of the poems of our own century which belongs in the first rank of artistic achievements, "In Memoriam," the highest themes are touched with the strength of one who knows how to face the problems of life with impartial and impersonal courage, and with the tenderness of one whose own heart has felt the immediate pressure of these tremendous questions.
As Tennyson puts it in "In Memoriam," speaking of Nature: "So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." This mode of creation reaches its highest level, at any rate in our world, in Genus Homo, or the human race. We also, as a race, are under the Law of Averages.
The religious question that arises upon experience of death has never been asked with more sincerity and attention than by him. If "In Memoriam" represents the mind of yesterday it represents no less the mind of to-morrow. It is true that pessimism and insurrection in their ignobler forms nay, in the ignoblest form of a fashion have, or had but yesterday, the control of the popular pen.
"I don't know's you are 'xactly; but somehow you did look like her, up-stairs to-day, when you had them white things tied on your head." "Were you here when she died?" I asked. "Oh, yes!" old Chloe closed her eyes, "it is one of the blessed things Chloe's Lord will let her 'member, up there;" and Chloe wiped her eyes, in memoriam. "I don't remember her," I said.
They were proud to have such a man in the house. It was all sheer happiness. Somehow on the last day the following notice appeared on the House board: In Memoriam MALEVUS SCHOLARUM In hadibus requiescat Quod non sine ignominia militavit No one knew who was responsible for it. Clarke looked at it for a second and turned away with a face that expressed no emotion.
Finally it was sung at her house by a gathering of musical friends, the performers being Ben Davies, Albani, Hilda Wilson, and David Bispham. They were so delighted with it that they brought it out at the Monday "Pops," and after that its success was assured. There are other song cycles by this composer, notably "In Memoriam," but none equal the "Persian Garden."
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