Lord Alfred Tennyson – Oak Arts & Crafts cupboard
Oak Arts & Crafts cupboard – candle sticks –
Hand painted in bronze letters
LET – THE – TAPERS – BURN – UNWAVERING
71 cm x 68,5 cm x 16,5 cm



In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 95

By night we linger’d on the lawn,
         For underfoot the herb was dry;
         And genial warmth; and o’er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn;
And calm that let the tapers burn
         Unwavering: not a cricket chirr’d:
         The brook alone far-off was heard,
And on the board the fluttering urn:
And bats went round in fragrant skies,
         And wheel’d or lit the filmy shapes
         That haunt the dusk, with ermine capes
And woolly breasts and beaded eyes;
While now we sang old songs that peal’d
         From knoll to knoll, where, couch’d at ease,
         The white kine glimmer’d, and the trees
Laid their dark arms about the field.
But when those others, one by one,
         Withdrew themselves from me and night,
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