Mamma says she will tell you a poem composed by a great poet, French, who is now, for patriotism to his country, in exile.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
These were all as unconscious of disaster as was the poet, who, "to please him well," was writing to Hallam in the very hour that he died.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
So passed the evening until all have retired to rest, and the poet is alone, when he takes out Hallam's last-written letters- "those fall'n leaves which kept their green, The noble letters of the dead."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty