e who love them now."--_Elizabeth R. Chapman_.

10. THE BROOK. The brook at Somersby flowed past the bottom of the
parsonage grounds. It is constantly mentioned in Tennyson's poems.
Hallam Tennyson says that the charm and beauty of the brook haunted his
father through life.

11. LESSER WAIN. Ursa Minor, or the Little Bear; a small constellation
containing the pole star. Wain means "wagon," another name for the
constellation.

14. HERN AND CRAKE. Heron and corn-crake.

21. LABOURER. He does not move away, but stays always there.

22. GLEBE. Soil.

CXIV

"The world now is all for the spread of knowledge: and I should be the
last to demur. But knowledge has an ardent impetuosity, which in its
present immature condition may be fraught with many perils. Knowledge by
itself, so far from being of necessity heavenly, may even become devilish
in its selfish violence. Everything depends upon its being held in due
subordination to those higher elements in our nature which go to make
wisdom. Would that the ideal aim of our education were to produce such
as he was, in whom every increase in intellectual ability was accompanied
by the growth of some finer grace of the spirit."--_Arthur W. Robinson_.

4. HER PILLARS. "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her
seven pillars."--_Proverbs_ 9: 1.

5. A FIRE. The fire of inspiration.

6. SETS. Hard, like a flint.

6. FORWARD. Bold, without reverence.

7. CHANCE. Of success.

8. TO DESIRE. Governed by passion, without restraint or self-control.

10. FEAR OF DEATH. Knowledge does not know what is beyond the grave and
therefore fears death.

11. CUT FROM LOVE, ETC. Wallace says: "Knowledge, in its own nature, can
have no love, for love is not of the intellect, and knowledge is all of
the intellect: so, too, she can have no faith, for faith in its nature is
a confession of ignorance, since she believes what she cannot know."

12. PALLAS. Pallas Athene, the goddess of wisdom among the Greeks, was
fabled to have sprung, fully grown and fully armed, from the brain of
Zeus. Wild Pallas means "false wisdom."

17. A HIGHER HAND. Wisdom.

23. THY GOAL. The goal of wisdom.

28. REVERENCE, ETC. In faith and love.

CXV

"Another spring has come, and all its lovely sights and sounds wake
answering chords in the poet's breast. The life within him stirs and
quickens in responsive harmony with the world without. But his regret,
too, blosso