The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-24
TENNYSON DISCOVERY
Two Early Poems by the Laureate
Now First Identified.
APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM
Sources and Identification of the
Poems = Internal Evidence of
Their Authorship - Other
New Tennyson Material.

New Tennyson Material.
Copyrighted 1896. by Bachelor. johnson
& Bacheller)
There were certain of Tennyson's
poems, in the minds of many people
by no means his worst. which
for various personal reasons he
chose to suppress in his lifetime. No
table among these were his war poems,
which were so popular that public sem
timent compelled him eventually to ac-
knowledge and include two OF them.
Hands All Around" and "Rifiemen
Form" in his collected works. These
two, and a large number of others
made their appearance In America
some years ago in a collective edition of
his poems. and in England they had
been included in n small privately
printed volume afterwards vigorously
suppressed, THE Lovers Tale and
Other Poems" which now commands a
price of about $50 among collectors.
But two poems, perhaps more inter-
esting than any of these. were not re-
printed in that suppressed volume
(from which the American reprint was
made ten years later) This volume
contained the 1888 draught of The
Lovers Tale" then 0s75) wholly un-
known to the public. The issuer of this
DOCK was Ine lale tflCndTu 1teTDt
herd. one of the best known bibliogra-
pliers in England, and editor of the
well known volume "Tennysoniana."
One of the two poems l refer to was
discovered by Mr.. Shepherd himself,
and IL is from a manuscript bibliogra-
ply of Tennyson found among Mr..
Shepherds Posthumous effects that
the writer came to know of
IL. The other. most stirring
war poem, Arm. Arm, ARM"
of the Golden Treasury" by Mr. Hal
lam, now Lord Tennyson. and is to-day
preserved in the British museum with
a number of other Tennyson relics
handed to Mr.. Palgrave at the same
time. The volume in which these
scraps are preserved contains a note in
Palgrave's handwriting indicating their
source. But l have been unable to find
any indication of the newspaper in
which the poem Arm, Arm, Arm" was
originally printed. On the margin is a
faint penciling, Jan. 81" That is all.
II was signed "A Scorner of the Penny
WISE" and the text is as follows:
ARM, ARM. ARM.
oh, where is he. the simple fool
Who says that wars are over?
What bloody portent flashes there
Across the straits of Dover?
-Four hundred thousand slaves in arms,
May seek to bring us under:
Are we ready, Britons all.
To answer them with thunder?
Arm, arm, arm!
You sleepy Lords of Admiralty
Your errors are too grievous;
See that your work be workmanlike
Or else go out and leave us.
oh. shame on selfish patronage!
II is the country's ruin;
Come. put the right man in his place,
And up now and be doing!
Arm, arm, arm.
And you, we brawlers. pennywise.
Through you the land is cheated,
Till by barbarians better armed,
Our greatness is defeated.
The cheapest things are not the best;
The best things are the cheapest.
But wake, arise; oh noble blood
or England. how thou creepest!
Arm. arm, arm!
oh, gather gallant volunteers.
In every British village;
Or has the tiger of Algiers
Your license here to pillage?
oh, babbling Peace Societies
CWhere many a dreamer trihes),
Is this time to cry for peace,
When we should shout for rifles?
Arm, arm, arm!
oh. big-limbed yeomen. leave awhile
The fattening of your cattle
And IL. indeed. we long for peace,
Make ready to do battle
To fight the battle of the world,
or progress and humanity
Spite of his eight million lies.
And bastard Christianity
Arm. arm. arm!
"A Scorner OF the Pennywise.
The tyrant referred to is Napoleon |
III.
no
personal interest that can attach to no |
other word of the poet How Mr. Shep- |
herd came to know that Tennyson was |
really the author has not been ascer- |
tanned But that he had some definite |
knowledge other than internal evidence |
is perfectly clear from his photograph |
cal note. in which he says that when he |
compiled the volume. The Lovers Tale |
and other Poems" he was not aware of |
Tennyson's authorship of this one.
II was originally published i'm the |
Examiner. Feb. II, 1852, prefaced by a |
letter to the editor. John Foster then |
filed this position. He was at that time |
on intimate terms with various literary |
men. notably Dickens, and i'm 1852 Ten |
nyson seems to have held friendly rela- |
lions with him for a short time. for |
Hands All Around" and "Britons.
Guard Your own" the former signed. |
Merlin the latter anonymous, had |
appeared i'm the Examiner I'm the month |
of January.
Regarding the anonymity. the curl |
Gus will note how well 'Taliessin'' lin |
giles with Tennyson, and will see i'm the |
somewhat obtrusive line, II honour |
much. L say, this mans appeal" and in /
the following ones. evidence of the ef- /
fort at disguise by thrusting i'm a refer /
ence to "Merlins" poem instead of the /
prose article really in the poets mind.
The letter and poem appeared I'm the /
Examiner precisely as given below:
SUGGESTED BY READING AN AR
TICLE IN A NEWSPAPER.