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TENNYSONIANA.
same collection, the following lines are written in pencil on the fly-leaf:
"Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges,
Your portals statued with old kings and queens,
Your bridges and your busted libraries,
War-lighted chapels and rich carved screens,
Your doctors and your proctors and your deans,
Shall not avail you when the day-beam sports
New-risen o'er awaken'd Albion—no,
Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow
Melodious thunders through your vacant courts
At morn and even; for your manner sorts
Not with this age, nor with the thoughts that . . .[1]
Because the lips of little children preach
Against you—ye that did profess to teach
And have taught nothing, feeding not the soul."
Your portals statued with old kings and queens,
Your bridges and your busted libraries,
War-lighted chapels and rich carved screens,
Your doctors and your proctors and your deans,
Shall not avail you when the day-beam sports
New-risen o'er awaken'd Albion—no,
Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow
Melodious thunders through your vacant courts
At morn and even; for your manner sorts
Not with this age, nor with the thoughts that . . .[1]
Because the lips of little children preach
Against you—ye that did profess to teach
And have taught nothing, feeding not the soul."
- ↑ This word is illegible.
