New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-30
4 MONOLOG UE BY TENNYSON.

A STORY OF sUICIDE-THE SENTIMENTS OF AN IN
BELIEVER sNATCHED FROM DEATH
LONDON, Oct. 29.-Alfred TenHyson has published
dramatic monologue, entitled Despair" 1t is an
account of the suicide of an unbeliever.
THE TENOR OF THE PIECE.
Dispatch 10 The Epening Telegram.
LONDON, Oct, 2s.-Afred Tenngson ppJbil;shess,
dramatic monologue, entitled " Despair IN t tle
current number of he Nineteenth Century,. 1t Is the
story of man and his wife who, having lost 1aith
in good future life, resolve to commit suicide by
drowning. The woman is drowned but the man
is rescued by the minister Of the sect he has aban-
dOned. Of this work one critic remarks:
Mr. Tennyson has never been less ambiguous, seldom
more powerful, never wcrdy impressive man III
this the latest fruit of his genius Mr. Tenny on TINS
OCCASION eXemplihes without enforcing or III tcIus
fntingthe mental misery of without nope wllh
belief and without the capacity OF ENJOY tie OlS %
of whose existence he can feel sure Inc Who,e poem
come fricnn apparent need Here and there are
spersed fragments OF spasmodlc reIToaci 10 ,s ~ m
explanation of the sufferers feelings so Tar as they are
capable Of analysis
The following are quotations from this poem;
Is you that preached in the chapel there looking over
Followed U.s. too that night and logged and drew us
What did / feel that night You are curious; How
should tell 80, ,,.,
Does IL matter 80 much What lelJi lou IoHou'"
That yon came unwehed for mcaned for, between me
Three days since three dark days of the goddess
gloom, .
OF a life without sun, without health without hope
Can anything here upon ear-but ALL Cod that night.
When the rolling eyes of the lighthouse there on the
or land running out into rock they had saved many
Gared on our way toward death. 1 remembered, I
Does il matter how many the savcdi We all Of us
DO YOU land there came through the of the
breaker whisper, n breath ,,,,., a., ,,
Fearl Am not with youi am frightened al me- not
And the suns Of the mtless universe sparked and shone
Flashing With fires as of God but know that their
Lightly step the sands the waters yon hear them
Life with its anguish and and away with
And sue laid her hand in my she always loyal
TIL the points OF the lohh III inc uusA '"'' l'''5
There was strong sea current, would sweep out to
All. God tho felt as spoke taking the name in
All, God and we turned to each other, kissed, we
embraced, she and ], A.,
Knowing love were used to believe everlasting
We had read their know nothing books and leaned to
All, God! should we End him, perhaps, perhaps if we
We never had found m on earth this earth is father
Dear love- forever and ever forever and ever, fare
well!
Never cry so dcsolate, since the world began,
Never kiss SO sal, no. not the coming OF man;
But the blind cast ashore aud you saved me
va!uCless life;
Not gram OF gratitude NINE y0u have parted the man
from the wife.
am let alone on the land, she Is alone the sea,
If "a aught would curse you for not having
let me be. 49, .
Have crazed myself over their horrible inGde writ
ingS oh yes .
For these the dark you OF the inhdel
press.
When the bat comes ont of his cave and the owls
whOOping at noon,
And doubt Is the lord OF tins dungh ana crows 70 the
sun and the moon,
TIL the sun ana OF signs both Of them
turned into blood,
And hope will have broken her heart running after
shadow of good.
For their knowing and know nothing books are scattered
from hand TO hand.
We have knet in your know all chapel too, looking over
the sand
All yet have had glimncr at times In my goomi-
est woe,
OF God behind ALL after al-the great God for aught
that know.
But the God OF love and Of hell together they cannot be
thought
II there be such God may the great God him and
bring Tim 10 nOushL