OF PR

THE POETICAL WORKS OF

ALFRED TENNYSON.

VOLUME I.

HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON.

TO THE QUEEN.

REVERED, beloved-O you that hold

A nobler office upon earth

Than arms, or power of brain, or birth

Could give the warrior kings of old,

Victoria, since your Royal grace

To one of less desert allows

This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base;

And should your greatness, and the care

That yokes with empire, yield you time
To make demand of modern rhyme

If aught of ancient worth be there;