University of Virginia Library

AFTER READING TENNYSON'S “IN MEMORIAM”

Then came the grand cessation of the song,
As of an autumn gale which long has blown,
Bowing the woods and tossing all the streams;
A last majestic gust that leaves the land,
And passes, with deep silence close behind,
Out o'er the seas, and onward to the stars.
1868.