[50] In “The Two Voices,” Tennyson says,
“I know that age to age succeeds,
Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,
A dust of systems and of creeds.”
And again, in “The Vision of Sin,”
“All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.”
Also in Poem LXXI., 3.
“the dust of change.”
[51] Shakespeare says,—“Till the diminution of space had pointed him sharp as my needle.”—Cymbeline, Act i., s. 4.
Chaucer says,
“And all the world as to mine eye
No more seemed than a prike.”
Temple of Fame.
[52] “The Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die. Time is powerless against him,” said Mr. Gladstone, in returning thanks at Kirkwall for himself and Mr. Tennyson. To both of whom the freedom of the borough was presented, on the occasion of their visit—13 Sept., 1883.