I seem to love thee more and more.

Far off thou art, but ever nigh;

I have thee still, and I rejoice;

I prosper, circled with thy voice;

I shall not lose thee tho’ I die.”

Browning’s “May and Death”

Following is a little poem by Robert Browning entitled May and Death, which may well be placed near the stanzas of In Memoriam:—

“I wish that when you died last May,