Or, falling, protomartyr of our cause,

Die ;

She, ending, waved her hands; thereat the crowd

Muttering, dissolved;

While I listened, came

On a sudden the weird seizure and the doubt;

Breathing and sounding beauteous battle, comes With the air of the trumpet round him, and leaps in Among the women, snares them by the score, Flattered and flustered, wins, tho' dashed with death He reddens what he kisses;

but other thoughts than Peace

Burnt in us, when we saw the embattled squares, And squadrons of the Prince, trampling the flowers With clamor; for among them rose a cry

As if to greet the King; they made a halt;

The horses yelled; they clashed their arms; the drum

Beat; merrily-blowing shrilled the martial fife;

And in the blast and bray of the long horn

And serpent-throated bugle, undulated

The banner; anon to meet us lightly pranced
Three captains out;

and standing like a stately Pine

Set in a cataract on an island-crag,

When storm is on the heights, and right and left
Sucked from the dark heart of the long hills roll
The torrents, dashed to the vale;

till a rout of saucy boys

Brake on us at our books, and marred our peace,
Masked like our maids, blustering I know not what
Of insolence and love.

yet whatsoe'er you do,

Fight and fight well; strike and strike home. O dear Brothers, the woman's Angel guards you,

and once more

The trumpet, and again; at which the storm
Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears
And riders front to front,

The large blows rained, as here and everywhere

He rode the mellay, lord of the ringing lists,

And all the plain, — brand, mace, and shaft, and shield — Shocked, like an iron-clanging anvil banged

With hammers;

came

As comes a pillar of electric cloud,

Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,

And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes

On a wood, and takes, and breaks, and cracks, and splits, And twists the grain with such a roar that Earth

Reels, and the herdsmen cry;

And on they moved and gained the hall, and there
Rested;

she said

Brokenly, that she knew it, she had failed

In sweet humility;

The two-celled heart beating, with one full stroke,
Life.

The ar foot, beating,' gains additional effect from the monosyllabic words before and after it. The same is true of the preceding ax foot.

the walls

Blackened about us, bats wheeled and owls whooped.

THE PRINCESS:

A MEDLEY.

PROLOGUE.

SIR WALTER VIVIAN all a summer's day
Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun
Up to the people; thither flocked at noon
His tenants, wife and child, and thither half

1. Sir Walter Vivian. The prototype of Sir Walter Vivian was Edmund Henry Lushington, and his son, "an Edmund too" (to retain the idea and change the name), became the husband of Cecilia Tennyson, whose marriage is the theme of the concluding stanzas of In Memoriam. The poet's tribute to his brother-in-law, "the most learned man in England after Thirlwall," will be immediately recalled:

And thou art worthy, full of power;

As gentle, liberal-minded, great,
Consistent; wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.'

(Walters, Tennyson, p. 63.)

It has been said that Sir John Simeon, of Swainston, in the Isle of Wight, was the original of Sir Walter Vivian, but this view is not so well supported. See the description in Con. 41 ff., and the note there.

2. Lawns. Glades or open spaces among or between woods; natural pasture-land. The American lawn is not to be thought of. Cf. sloping pasture, 55.

The neighboring borough with their Institute,

Of which he was the patron.

From college, visiting the son

I was there

the son

A Walter too—with others of our set,

Five others: we were seven at Vivian Place.

And me that morning Walter showed the house,
Greek, set with busts; from vases in the hall
Flowers of all heavens, and lovelier than their names,
Grew side by side; and on the pavement lay
Carved stones of the Abbey-ruin in the park,

Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time;
And on the tables every clime and age
Jumbled together: celts and calumets,
Claymore and snowshoe, toys in lava, fans
Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries,

5. Institute. Mechanics' Institute. What would this be?
8. A Walter too. See note on I.

9. Seven.

How many cantos are there of the story proper? 11. Greek. What are some of the characteristics of this style of domestic architecture? Designate a house of this style in your vicinity, and describe the exterior.

common in England?

When did this style become

Explain.

12. Lovelier than their names. 15. Ammonites. Fossil shells, usually ornamented outside with ribs, knobs, spines, etc., while the under layer is pearly. There is a fossil mollusk called cornu Ammonis, the horn of the god Ammon, who was represented with a ram's head; hence the name. — First bones of Time. Have you ever seen any in a museum?

17. Jumbled. Prefiguring the 'medley.' - Celts. Prehistoric weapons of stone or bronze, somewhat resembling a chisel or an axe. Calumets. Indian tobacco-pipes with stone bowl, and long reed stem ornamented with eagles' feathers.

18. Claymore. A heavy two-handed and double-edged broadsword, used by the Scottish Highlanders.

19. Amber. What is its color? What are sometimes found embedded in it? What is its connection with the discovery of electricity? Rosaries. Describe.

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