Evening star., 1925-09-07

| ton in their affection for all that, de
spite its fearsome rhyming of Gran
MES and man is
Quiller-Couch, includes Mariana
| mot one of my favorites). The Lady
of Shalott," dear to every schoolgirl;
''The Miller's Daughter, "."Song of the
Lotus Eaters st Agnes Eve"
BLOW, Bugle, Blow Summer
Night" Come Down. o Maid" some
| quatrains from that stiff poem. In
Memoriam"; Maud and 'Oh, That
'Twere Possible
| would like to know where is
Break, Break, Break" and the quat-
| rains from I'm Memoriam" great for
all its stiffness), beginning with "Oh.
| yet we trust that somehow good will
be the final goal of ILL.," and ending
| with the lines about AN infant crying
| in the night?"
How about those other stanzas. too.
Ring Out, Wild Bells. to the Wild
| Sky" that great composer has
| thought enough of to set to music?
When any one gives me a selection
| from Tennyson | want sweet and
Low" that touching song from The
! Princess" Have you ever heard a
good soprano sing it?
swssi w,nd and ID low, ,Ss 1S.,s.n sweet and low.
Low, low, breathe and blow.
Wind of the western sea
Over the rolling waters go.
Blow hin, again 10 me
While my little one. while my pretty one
sleeps.
! Sleep and rest. sleep and rest
Father viii come to thee soon:
Rest, rest. on mothers breast,
Father will come nSs to e hs shfe BABE in the
eiiNcr saiiS all out q, the west
| Sleep. my little one. steep. my prettp one,
sleep.
! That, too. has been set TO GOOD
/ music. From the same poem, The
! Princess" In which woman suffrage
| plished. one takes those lines begin
| ming, Tears. idle tears, I know not
what they mean"
! Then there is another song. THE
| Splendor Falls on Castle Walls" the
! subject OF many a painting.
What child ought to miss What
Does Little Birdie say"
What does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day?
let me fly: says little birdie.
Birdie rest q little longer
So she rests a little longer.
Then she flies away.
What does little baby say.
III her bed At peep Of day,
Let me rice and ny away
Baby. sleep a little longer.
Till the little limbs are stronger
" she sleeps little longer
Baby. too, shall fly away.
To my way of thinking. a simpIe
unaffected bit such as that, better
shows the genius of A great man and
poet than some of his more severe
high brow" poems. for il takes a
| genius and gentleman to write
| about a bird and a baby. whereas
almost any bruiser may strike off
| something in the grand manner
Taine. the Frenchman, in his His
| torYkof English Literature" says that
wh4t first attracted people We're
| Tennyson portraits of women.
'Adeline, Eleanore. Lillian the
May Queen. were keepsake charac-
| ters, from the hand of a lover and
an artist" declares Taine. Each
word is like tint" OF In Memo
riam" he says: He goes into mourn
| ing. but. like a correct gentleman" >"
! The poem. Taine declares. is cold
| monotonous and too prettily ar
! ranged.
The "Idylls Of the King were
| Tennyson's great tour de force pretty
though fine arrangements of the
prose of the Mort d'Arthur" Be
| tween these idyIls and the Tales of
| a Wayside Inn by Longfellow, there
always seemed to me to exist kin
| ship.
If you read them. you will like
| them-but who reads them?