More than in humbler times graced human story; 10
That makes our hearts more apt to sympathise
With heaven, our souls more fit for future glory,
When earth shall vanish from our closing eyes,
Ere we lie down in our last dormitory?[173]
[170] It was afterwards printed in the Saturday Magazine, Oct. 24, 1840.—Ed.
[171] 1845.
Knowledge
1838.
[172] Compare Tennyson’s In Memoriam, stanza cxx.—