publication of " In Memoriam " that she took up
her residence at Well Walk, Hampstead, where she
passed away in her 85th year.
She does not rest beside her husband in the quiet
churchyard at Somersby, near the old rectory, where she
trained her boys, but hard by the entrance of High-
gate Cemetery a small cross —

The symbol of the holiest death of all,

marks her grave, under it being carved simply the
words —



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FEB. 2IST, 1865.
Marriage.
' These two — they dwelt with eye on eye,
Their hearts of old have brat in tune,
Their meetings made December June,
Their every parting was to die."




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MARRIAGE.
Love may be said to be the key-note of Tennyson.
It is his favourite harp-string ; he never wearies
sounding it, from his " Airy, fairy Lilian " down to
his latest ode, — -with him " no lapse of moons can
canker Love."

The poet, he tells us, is dowered with "the love
of love," which, whether or not an unfailing charac-
teristic, seems in any cas.e true of Tennyson, as the
spirit of his poems abundantly testifies.
Love, however, which finds its realization in mar-
riage, could in his early years only be looked forward
to by him ; for, unlike his squire in " The Miller's
Daughter," he had few broad acres to call his own,
having accepted the spirit of poetry as his fortune
and chosen for himself a difficult path up the hill
of Parnassus, whose bare slopes yield but scanty sub-
sistence. Thus the greater part of Tennyson's early

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154 MARRIAGE.
manhood was passed unmarried, living with his friends
and his golden dreams.
