Look thro' the far end window, cool and green.

A band it is, of high companionship,—

Chief, Newton, and the broad-browed Verulam,

And others only less than these in arts

Or science: names that England holds on high.

Among whom, hoped the youth, would soon be set,

The living likeness of a living Bard,—

Great Alfred Tennyson, the Laureate,

Whom Trinity most loves of living sons.

But other thought had Whewell and the Dons,