Quite a new reading, not to Hamlet, but to one of the lyrics in The Princess, was suggested by another compositor. The introduction of a comma in the first line of the last stanza of “Home they brought her warrior dead” produced a quaint effect.
“Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee,”
appears in every edition of The Princess. But my friend, by his timely insertion of a comma, made it read thus:
“Rose, a nurse of ninety years.”
Perhaps the nurse’s name was Rose, but Tennyson kept this a secret.
One of the loveliest of Irish national melodies is that for which Moore wrote the stanzas beginning:—
“Silent, O Moyle, be the roar of thy waters!”
The title of this song appeared in the programme of a St. Patrick’s Day Concert, which was published in a leading London newspaper, as though the poem were addressed to one Mr. O’Moyle,—“Silent, O’Moyle.”