term of heraldry used of an animal represented as walking, often with the dexter foot raised.

255. I repent it o'er his grave.

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Locksley Hall is a poem which seems specially to call for a sequel, because the natural youthful sense of injustice had led the poet [?] to be unjust; unjust, if not to Amy, certainly to her husband. Youthful feeling can scarcely be quite fair to a woman who deceives, or to a rival who succeeds." - WILSON.

262. I have loved thee well.

Whose voice is this?

266. Follow him who led the way, the dead squire, Amy's husband.

"He still stoutly teaches manly duty and personal effort, and longs for progress more, he trows, than its professing and blatant votaries." GLADSTONE.

270. Earth would never touch her worst, etc.

"It is in the life of his successful rival, who strove for sixty years to help in all ways his homelier fellow-men, that he recognizes the force which is to prevent the earth from touching her earthly worst if it does not lift her to her heavenly best." - LOUNSBURY.

277. Follow Light and do the Right. See Enone, 147-8:

"And, because right is right, to follow right

Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence."

Man can half control his doom. Compare The Marriage of Geraint, 355:

"For man is man and master of his fate."

278. The deathless Angel, etc. The allusion is to Mark,

xvi., 5:

"And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, arrayed in a white robe."

Compare also Matthew, xxviii., 2; Luke, xxiv., 2−4; John, xx., 12. The star (line 275) seems to be the star that guided the wise men from the east (Matthew, ii., 2 and 9–10), and the whole thought to be: Follow the footsteps of Jesus from his birth to his death.

279. Forward. The watchword of youth is taken up now with no uncertain tone.

280. Love will conquer at the last. Compare Virgil's

"Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori."

Eclogues, X., 69.

The critic in The Spectator says:

"The difference between the Locksley Hall of Tennyson's early poems, and the Locksley Hall of his latest, is this, that in the former all the melancholy is attributed to personal grief, while all the sanguine visionariness which really springs out of overflowing vitality justifies itself by dwelling on the cumulative resources of science and the arts; in the latter, the melancholy in the man, a result of ebbing vitality, justifies itself by the failure of knowledge and science to cope with the moral horrors which experience has brought to light, while the set-off against that melancholy is to be found in a real personal experience of true nobility in man and woman."

Of the two poems Luce writes:

"In the maturer poem there is nothing so buoyant, and fresh, and young; yet it holds us enchanted with a spell as strong. Locksley Hall sent a joyous thrill through our blood; but there are passages in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After that make the heart ache with their beauty."

Bible, 86, 87, 89, 92, 93, 103, III, Cowper, 73, 95, 123-4.