By a similar process, applied to the acknowledged poems of Charles Tennyson, we find several interesting parallel passages, which shall be given side by side. POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS. "Then happy the man who upsprings with the morn, And slings o'er his shoulder his loud bugle-horn!" Huntsman's Song, p. 62. "But should a comet brighter still His blazing train unfold Among the many lights that fill The sapphirine with gold." The Dying Christian, p. 175. p. 95. POEMS BY CHARLES TENNYSON, 1830. "In the frore sweetness of the breathing morn, When the loud pealing of the huntsman's horn Doth sally forth upon the silent air," &c. Sonnet 46. "With mighty bulk along the sky They sped-I saw their trains so bright!" Comets, p. 71. Compare with the last poem in Charles Tennyson's volume: "We all must die—but to the good," &c. POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS. "The terrible maelstroom, around his centre On Sublimity, p. 108. "The dew with which the early mead is drest, Mocks the foil'd glance that would its hues arrest, 66 Oh, man! relinquish Passion's baleful joys," &c. pp. 172, 173. POEMS BY CHARLES TENNYSON, 1830. "Strong as the centre of the deep maelstroom When flung into the calm of sightless speed. Sonnet 9 (p. 12). "Vexation waits on Passion's changeful glow, But th' intellect may rove a thousand ways And yet be calm while fluctuating so: The dewdrop shakes not to its shifting rays, And transits of soft light," &c. Sonnet 9 (p. 12). CHAPTER II. 66 THE CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEM, TIMBUCTOO." It was apparently not long after the publication of their joint volume that Charles and Alfred Tennyson removed to Trinity College, Cambridge,' where, in the summer of 1829, they formed a friendship with another young student of the same college, Arthur Henry Hallam, the son of Hallam the historian. 1 Frederick Tennyson, the eldest of the seven brothers, was already at Trinity when Charles and Alfred joined the College. He gained the prize for a Greek poem on Egypt in 1828, which was published in the "Prolusiones Academica" of that year, with the following title, "Carmen Græcum Numismate Annuo dignatum et in curiâ Cantabrigiensi recitatum comitiis maximis A.D. MDCCCXXVIII., auctore Frederico Tennyson, Coll. SS. Trin. Alumno." More lately (1854) Frederick Tennyson has become known to the public as the author of a graceful volume of verses entitled "Days and Hours." 2 Their friendship having been at Hallam's death of four years' duration and verging into a fifth autumn. (See “In Memoriam," xxii.) |