[44] There are other tablets in this church, which contain touching memorials of the Hallam family. The historian's own death is recorded as having taken place on 21st January, 1859. Mrs. Hallam died 28th April, 1840. Their son Henry Fitzmaurice died at Sienna, 25th October, 1850, aged 26; and he is said, by one who knew him, to have had all the charm and talent of Arthur. On 13th June, 1837, in her 21st year, Eleanor Hallam was suddenly called away, and was buried in the vault where her brother, Arthur, had been laid. It was after this sad bereavement, that Mr. and Mrs. Hallam made a brief sojourn at Sevenoaks, then unspotted by villas, where they lived in strict retirement. Mr. Hallam only associated with Sir John Bayley, the retired judge, who was a kind friend of my own youth. I see the sorrowing couple at church in garments of the deepest mourning: and the fine brow of Mr. Hallam resting on his hand, as he stood during the service in pensive devotion.--A. G. [45] The Severn is nine miles wide at Clevedon. [46] _Consanguineus leti sopor._ AEn. vi. 278. See also Iliad xiv., 231, and xvi., 672. [47] In Tennyson's "Ode to Memory" the lines occur "The seven elms, the poplars four. That stand beside my father's door." [48] The foot of "Maud" opened these fringes by treading on the daisies. "Her feet have touched the meadows, and left the daisies rosy." [49] Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Letter to a Friend," says, with reference to some one recently dead, that "he lost his own face, and looked like one of his near relations: for he maintained not his proper countenance, but looked like his uncle." [50] In "The Two Voices," Tennyson says, "I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A _dust_ of systems and of creeds." And again, in "The Vision of Sin," "All the windy ways of men Are but _dust_ that rises up, And is lightly laid again." Also in Poem LXXI., 3. "the _dust_ of change." [51] Shakespeare says,--"Till the diminution of space had pointed him sharp as my needle."--_Cymbeline_, Act i., s. 4. Chaucer says, "And all the world as to mine eye No more seemed than a prike." _Temple of Fame._ [52] "The Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die. Time is powerless against him," said Mr. Gladstone, in returning thanks at Kirkwall for himself and Mr. Tennyson. To both of whom the freedom of the borough was presented, on the occasion of their visit--13 Sept., 1883. [53] This term is Shakespearean, "What devil was't That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind." _Hamlet_, Act iii., s. 4. [54] A younger sister of Lady Tennyson. [55] Their scholarly father gave them their first classical training. He was a strict tutor, and would make them repeat some odes of Horace before breakfast.