The following apropos composition, which has never before been printed, is from the same pen.
Tennyson's original poem commences—
"You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,
Whose spirits falter in the mist,
And languish for the purple seas?"
And concludes—
"Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth,
Wild wind! I seek a warmer sky,
And I will see before I die