Xlvi

[Published in The Keepsake for 1851: an illustrated annual, edited by Miss Power. London: David Bogue. To this issue of the Keepsake Tennyson also contributed 'Come not when I am dead' now included in the collected Works.]

What time I wasted youthful hours One of the shining wingèd powers, Show'd me vast cliffs with crown of towers,

As towards the gracious light I bow'd, They seem'd high palaces and proud, Hid now and then with sliding cloud.

He said, 'The labour is not small; Yet winds the pathway free to all:-- Take care thou dost not fear to fall!'