THE WORKS OF

ALFRED TENNYSON.

IDYLLS OF THE KING.

BIBL

HENRY S. KING & Co.

65, CORNHILL, & 12, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

1874.

280. n. 838.

[All Rights reservea.)

DEDICATION.

THESE to His Memory-since he held them dear,
Perchance as finding there unconsciously

Some image of himself-I dedicate,

I dedicate, I consecrate with tears—

These Idylls.

And indeed He seems to me
Scarce other than my own ideal knight,
'Who reverenced his conscience as his king;
Whose glory was, redressing human wrong;
Who spake no slander, no, nor listen'd to it;
Who loved one only and who clave to her—'
Her-over all whose realms to their last isle,
Commingled with the gloom of imminent war,
The shadow of His loss drew like eclipse,
Darkening the world. We have lost him he is

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