Footnotes:
[1] “The brook alone far off was heard.” P. xcv. s. 2.
[2] In Bag Enderby Church is a stone memorial tablet to the Burton family, let into the wall, and dated 1591. Upon it are carved, in bold relief, parents and children in a kneeling posture. It has a Latin motto, signifying, that all begins with the dust of the earth, and ends with it.
[3] The name is happily preserved in his patent of nobility, which runs thus: “Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth, in the County of Sussex.”
[4] About the time of Dr. Tennyson’s death, the population of Somersby was 61, the church accommodation 60, and the annual value of the benefice £92. The population of Bag Enderby was 115, church accommodation 100, and value £92.
[5] The use of this word misled the Poet himself, who has since exchanged the term “chancel” for “dark church.”
[6] The scene is not laid in Somersby Churchyard, as there is no clock in the Church tower.
[7] Critics have regarded the term “lying lip” as too harsh; but in Poem xxxix. it is again applied to sorrow—
“What whisper’d from her lying lips?”
See also Psalm cxx. 2.