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TENNYSONIANA.

Again, in another part of the same book:

"I spent two fortunate days at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, the residence of Tennyson. In the scenery round about the poet's residence, I recognized many lines of 'Maud.' He lives in a charming spot, looking out on one side over the edges of the chalk cliffs, to

'The liquid azure bloom of a crescent of sea,
The silent sapphire-spangled marriage-ring of the land,'

and on the other, across the blue channel of the Solent, to the far-off wavy line of the New Forest on the northern horizon. Never shall I forget those golden hours spent with the noble poet and noble man, on the rolling windy downs above the sea, and under the shade of his own ilex and elm!"[1]

In August, 1859, Mr. Tennyson made a fortnight's tour in Portugal, in company with Francis Turner Palgrave, who has published a journal of the little expedition in which it was his privilege to enjoy such companionship.[2]

  1. "At Home and Abroad," p. 372.
  2. "Under the Crown:" a magazine, Nos. 1 and 2.