The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-22

HrSt three, VINO nave absorbed this COM
ment, seem not TO have appealed long to
the public, and to the larger public not
at all.
IL was the literary fashion in England.
as IL was also here, from forty to sixty
years ago, for publishers to issue IN hoii-
day times certain books known as IAN
nuais.' These volumes embodied-fre-
Quentiy with Observation-Disclosures in
prose and verse from various current
writer's then eminent, with articles from
others who were mere Literary craftsmen.
And with these were a. ways a Few names
that were TO achieve future eminence.
The series OF 'keepsaKes" and Friend
ships Offerings" published in London at
that period, are treasure houses of the
works of those writer's. In the Tribune
edited by Lord Northampton fftv.nve
years ago-a copy of which | possess and
have before mel find two brief pieces By
Charles Tennyson and a long lyric of
Alfred Tennvson's. As these poems are
now extremely rare, in a bibiographic
sense, and suffused, too, with other inter.
est, shall venture to copy them.
TO LADY.
By the Rev. C. 7. Tennyson
Farewell! 1t l. now my parting hour:
Thy sister wends her way with me
To spend far off, by land and sea,
Those first lair moons OF peace and RleA
That shine upon The orange flower;
Ee!r moons tDdI guard those petals fair.
Full sweetly may ye downward shine,
Oh light US on the ocean brine
And wsne not on the winding Rhine,
Or where the SWitZers mountains ara
The next is a
soSEEr
con seeing a bevy OF humming birds In q glass
easel
By the Rev. Charles Turner Tennyson
For vacant song behold a shining themeI
These D.Bt NJ ba Ind
land,
The color OF whose Greats. sweet natures
hand,
Fulfls ones riches, thought of crimson CLEAN
Whose wings, those pois'd and balanced forth,
do seem
Slender serpent's tongue. or fairy's wand:
And, as by taper-light their breasts are
scanned,
OF loveler golden light we cannot dream:
Oh me; how soon doth human death impair
The glossy surface o! the fairest face,
In life. perchance, Immediately fair;
" hiie these Respondent figures wear no trace
(Brighthosomed and bright-crested as thew
arcD
"No sol! or cantel" of the tombs disgrace!
The first of these poems was, as internal
evidence proves, addressed 10 the sister of
his wife. on his wife's bridehood, and on
the eve OF the honeymoon Ii has been
generally understood. think, that Charles
Tennyson, on receiving the property from
his grandmother involving his change of
name. was afterwards known as Charles
Tennyson Turner; but his usage with
these poems made the Turner intermediate
rather than final. as late es 1888
The Tribute" from which haye
quoted these little verses. is made interest
ing further by poems Of considerable
length from the pen Of Walter Savage
Landor; and poems by Wordsworth,
Sonthey, Aubrey de We're and other writers.
famous or on the way TO fame 4 con.
trah ~ h -sr.s,s
q translation OF the IF rst Partoi Book V.
OF the Odyssey" by Lord John Russell
But the piece OF most distinction and in
terest. OF course. - the poem by Alfred
Tennyson, which he simply entitled
'Stanzas. l. became attcrvard, il not
the most melodlous, one I the most mem
orabie lyrics IN Maud" but not until II
had received u revision, which. among
other things, reduced II in length II
shows the serious labor and sincerity in
Tennysons work to note how long he kent
In mind, and with what cautious touches
and restraint be treated, what he had once
carefully written. Not all his changes
pleased his admirers and critics. nor were
they All for the better. The changes he
made IN The Charge of the Light Brigade
at Balak!aya' we're a. IL seems to me ior
the worst. His couplet in Form. Rifle
men, Form. Was hardly an Improvement.
In the original version It stood thus:
'T.s true we have fs.thtau ally,
Hut only the devil kgows what he means
In the corrected shape il was made TO
read as follows:
True, We / ave cot such .slt.s fui a}lv
Taat on The dey ! can tell PAT be means
The ally was. Of course. NaDoieon III
Il - Impossible 10 describe in narrow
hm}ts the variations. large and small.
which the author mat~ In his "NavGf'
lyric here referred 10. A. large pl-; If
the original version was omitted entirely.
| have conciQded 70 copy :; here am cave
= yhe reader Who possesses coov u
''Maud" sac opportunity 10 make his own
comparisons.