[95] He said to Bishop Lightfoot, “The cardinal point of Christianity is the Life after Death.”
[96] See Appendix C.
[97] [The sibilants give the lisping peacefulness of the waves. For beauty of sound he would cite the following lines:
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees;
and
The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm;
and
And affluent Fortune emptied all her horn,
Ed.]
[98] [My father would not have allowed this. He said, “It is pure nonsense to say that my later poems are melancholy. In old age I have a stronger faith in God and human good than I had in youth.”—Ed.]