Note 12 — Early Poems (continued 4)

Compare with this Tennyson’s first sonnet (Works, Globe Edition, 25), and the lines in the Ancient Sage in the Passion of the Past (Id., 551). Cf. too the lines in Wordsworth’s ode on Intimations of Immortality:— But there’s a tree, of many one, A single field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone; The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat. For other remarkable illustrations of this see the present writer’s Illustrations of Tennyson, p. 38.