...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — 1 God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off — and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all...

...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off— and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all...

...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us;...which it throve Falls off — and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all...

...have borne the nobler fruit it bears for men, unless it had been thus trained upwards towards God. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." Alone, and yet its very existence is society. The blossom-petals sailed down, in the summer air ; but...

...their cause to plead, For whom the pains of death he bore. W OD gives us love. Something to love c3> He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. • LEST in life, revered in memory. by His hand, supported by His care, I scarce can doubt; why then...

...HOMES. I. THE LONELY HOME. " God gives us love : something to love He lendt us ; and, when love has grown To ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone." — Tennyson. A is a secluded, lovely spot on the coast of one of the southern English counties. One evening, soon...

...limbs are nnrït! I, Fall into shadow, soonest lost: Those we love flrat are taken first. God gives ne love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief 1 .un not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death...

...umbras; Quae prima accepit prima remittit amor. God gives us lore. Something to love He lends us; bat, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls oS, and love is left alone. fxmt. Sensibus inseruit nostris Deus au<5tor amorem, Pabula poscit amor,...

...whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death...

...philosophy of the poem is that which the poet afterwards so tersely expressed in the stanza : — " God gives us love, something to love He lends us;...is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls nil', and love is left alone." The poem, though philosophic in intention, is idyllic, because the philosophy...