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Though not a tall tree, it was a very stout and heavy trunk, and the tap-root on inspection proved to be partly rotten. Such is Tennyson's description of a spring day in the fields and woods, and nothing more beautiful could be written.
See Tennyson's beautiful poem . Cf. King Lear, Act I, Sc. 2, vs. 15. Emphyteusis is the legal renting of ground; Stillicide, a continual dropping of water, as from the eaves of a house. These words, Emphyteusis and Stillicide, are terms in Roman Law. Worldly Wiseman. The character in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , who meets Christian soon after his setting out from the City of Destruction.
The significance of philosophical and prophetic teaching in religion is a frequent subject of thought in our circles, and now the recent publication of Tennyson's life enables us to say something of the Religio Poetae the idealism which inspired the soul of a nineteenth century poet. The poet's name is not without significance and interest.
Speaking of Tennyson's conversation, he said: "Doric beauty is its characteristic perfect simplicity, without any ornament or anything artificial." Telling how he had been to a meeting of the British Museum Trustees, he said: "After the meeting Archbishop Benson helped me on with my greatcoat. I was quite overcome by this species of spiritual investiture.
And seeing himself in those times, clad in armour, a knight Templar walking in procession in that very church, John recited a verse of Tennyson's Sir Galahad "Sometimes on lonely mountain meres I find a magic bark; I leap on board; no helmsman steers: I float till all is dark. A gentle sound, an awful light!
No one ever sent a telegram who did not feel like a god. He is a god, for he is a minor poet; a minor poet, but a poet still. Mr. Morton Luce has written a short study of Tennyson which has considerable cultivation and suggestiveness, which will be sufficient to serve as a notebook for Tennyson's admirers, but scarcely sufficient, perhaps, to serve as a pamphlet against his opponents.
He thought once of Tennyson's "Dora," and of sketching his wife for the principal figure. He did make a sketch, but he found that he could not paint Dora's face; he could not place the dimpling smiles and bright blushes on canvas, and they were the chief charm. He therefore abandoned the idea. Standing one day where the sunbeams fell lightly through the thick myrtles, an inspiration came to him.
Yet substantially the volume is a continuation of the poems of 1855; except in one instance, where Tennyson's method in Maud, that of a sequence of lyrics, is adopted, the methods are the same; the predominating themes of Men and Women, love, art, religion, are the predominating themes of Dramatis Personae.
All Tennyson's own is the beautiful passage "And while he waited in the castle court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear thro' the open casement of the hall, Singing; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what kind of bird it is That sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture of the plumage and the form; So the sweet voice of Enid moved Geraint; And made him like a man abroad at morn When first the liquid note beloved of men Comes flying over many a windy wave To Britain, and in April suddenly Breaks from a coppice gemm'd with green and red, And he suspends his converse with a friend, Or it may be the labour of his hands, To think or say, 'There is the nightingale'; So fared it with Geraint, who thought and said, 'Here, by God's grace, is the one voice for me."
Wild roses also grew at the roadside, smaller and paler, I thought, than ours. I cannot make a chapter like the famous one on Iceland, from my own limited observation: There are no snakes in England. I can say that I found two small caterpillars on my overcoat, in coming from Lord Tennyson's grounds.
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