Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-06
He Peacefully Passed Away Early
This Morning.
LIFE AND WORK OF THE GREAT BARD.
Senator PETERS Son Killed in q
Railway Disaster.
NORTHEN'S MAJORITY 7o,655
DIED A GLORIOUS DEATH.


Tennyson Passed Quietly and Painlsssly
Away This Morning.
LoSDos, Oct. 6.-Lord Tennyson died at 1 :s5
O'Clock this morning. Sir Andrew Clark, one
OF the physicians who attended the poet
laureate, said that Lord Tennyson's death was
the most glorious he had ever seen.
There was no artificial light In the
room and the chamber was almost
In darkness. save where broad food Of moon
light poured In through a western window. The
moons rays fell across the bed upon
which " .,a;e the dying man lay, bathing him
a Rembrandt,like background to % the
scene. All was silent save the soughing Of
the autumn wind as il gently played
through the trees surrounding the house,
a fitting requiem for the gentle poet
Of nature. Motionless Lord Tennyson Law
upon his couch, the tide of his life gently and
slowly ebbing out into the ocean Of the infinite.
No rocks OF pain or sorrow checked its course
or causeda ripple upon the outgoing tide. As
peacefully and gently as he had lived
80 he died, looking until the end into the ewes
of those dear to him. All the members of the
family were by the bedside and Sir Andrew
Clark remained by his side from the moment
OF his arrival yesterday until be breathed his
last.
So gentle and painless was his passing away
that the family did not know be had gone until
DIR. Clark broke the news 10 LADY Tennyson
who bore the closing scenes of her great trial
well in spite of her extremely delicate health.
The Hon. Haliam Tennyson, the poets son.
says that his fathers death Was eminently
peaceful. He did not show single trace Of
suffering to distress his sorrowing relatives and
friends.
Once or twice during the night he lifted his
eyes to the faces of the watchers by his bedside
ard beautiful smile PLAYED over his features
No doubt as to the future in his wan face
and as the end came he appeared to fall asleep
So restful was he and so calmly did he respond
to the beckoning hand of the angel Of death
that those who stood beside him scarcely knew
that he had passed away.
Hallam further says that Lady Tennyson
bears up with fortitude under the sorrow that
has come to her. She was with Lord
Tennyson throughout all his sickness
and ministered to all his wants SO far
practically abandoned early in the afternoon.
The doctors were surprised that he lasted
through tue previous night, SO great was his
debility. He could take no noUrishment and
continued to grow weaker and weaker until the
end.
1t may be mentioned as a coincidence that a
year ago today man died who was as pre-
eminent in his field of labor as was Tennyson in
his. On October G. 1891. Charles Stewart Par
nell. the great Irish leader, passed away.
LIFE AND WORK OF TENSYsoN.
Alfred Tennyson. Baron Tennyson of AID
worth. Sussex. and of Freshwater. Isle of Wight,
was the third son of the late Rev. G. c. Tenny-
son. the elder brother of the late
Right Hon. C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt.
and born in 1909 He was
educated BY his father and in due course pro-
ceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1929
he gained the chancellors' medal BY poem in
htapE -1ols
Mr.. Tennyson did not publish ANYTHING of
importance till 1880, when Poems Chiefly
Lyrical appeared. and from 1912 the steady
and rapid growth OF his fame may
be traced. 1t was at once apparent
that the author of the .'Morte dArthur." !"
Locksley Hail." the May Queen" and the
1.-Two Voices was entitled TO take the first
rank among English poets, reputation which
was more than sustained by the two
great works which followed. He pub
hshed I'm Memoriam" in 1850. and it
seemed only matter of course, upon the
death OF Wordsworth in 1850. that the
privilege of wearing 1.-The laurel greener
from the brows of him who uttered moth
ing base" should be offered TO him.
This was also the year of his marriage 10
Emily. daughter of Henry Sellwocd. esq, of
Berkshire, and niece of Sir John Franklin. by
whom ne has had two sons. Hallam and Lionel
The '.Odo on the Death of the Duke
of Wellington was published in
1852 on ihe morning of the funeral.
and since that occurrence few events of more
than ordinary interest in the eyes of English
men have taken place without eliciting from
the laureate some poem worthy of the occa-
sion.
Among his dramatic compositions are Queen
Mary" 1875; Harold" is76; The Cup" a
play which was represented at the Ly-
ceum Theater January G. 1851. Mr. Irv-
ing taking the principal character (as
was also Queen Mary" and the "Falcon." ="
produced by Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall). and The
Promise of May" drama in three acts,
brought out at the Globe Theater November
II, 1882. "A Concordance to the Entire
Works of Alfred Tennyson," published
in 1869. is remarkable proof of the
laureates great popularity. At the commemor-
alton Of 1885 the University Of Oxford conferred
on the poet the honorary degree of d. CL., and
the fellows of his own college, Trinity Cambridge,
indorsing the judgment of the sister university.
subscribed to purchase his bust (by WoolnerD,
which they have placed in their library and in
1869 they unanimously elected him an honorary
fellow of the college. In December,
1883; Mr.. Tennyson accepted a peerage
as Baron Tennyson Of Aldworth, Sussex,
and Of Freshwater Isle Of Wight. since then
he has published "Becket," "Tiresias and
Other Poems, and at the end of 1886 .'Locksley
Hall-Sixty Years After, ~ and in his eighty-frst
year he produced another volume, "Demeter
and Other Poems" which has been very pop
nlar with both the English and American
public.