Tennyson, we have no doubt, had this thought of his friend in his mind, in the following lines; it is an answer to the question, Can man by searching find out God?—
“I found Him not in world or sun,
Or eagle’s wing, or insect’s eye;
Nor thro’ the questions men may try,
The petty cobwebs we have spun:
“If e’er when faith had fallen asleep,
I heard a voice ‘believe no more,’
And heard an ever-breaking shore
That tumbled in the godless deep;