Birthplace at Somersby
ALFRED TENNYSON.
Alfred Tennyson moves on his way through life heard, but by the public unseen. We might put to him a question similar to that which Wordsworth put to the cuckoo:—
"O blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee, and rejoice.
O Tennyson! art thou a man,
Or but a wandering voice?"
And our question would have like answer. That is, we should get just as much from the man as Wordsworth got from the cuckoo. We should have to look wise, and add—
"Even yet thou art to me