Leaps like a fountain from the grass
To meet the sun!”
A generation has sprung up since that day, satiated with marvels and surprised by no achievement of hand and brain. But no such visible, tangible accomplishment in the arts of peace had ever been manifested up to that time; if Prince Albert’s idea had been one of startling novelty, the celerity of its realisation was still more startling.
F. Winterhalter.] [From the Royal Collection.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT.
From the Portrait painted in 1859.
“God bless my dearest Albert!” wrote the Queen with no feigned emotion, “God bless my dearest country, which has shown itself so great to-day! One felt so grateful to the great God, who seemed to pervade all and bless all.”
