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(Dedication of “The Death of Œnone” to Emily, Lady Tennyson)

There on the top of the down, The wild heather round me and over me June’s high blue, When I look’d at the bracken so bright and the heather so brown, I thought to myself I would offer this book to you, This, and my love together, To you that are seventy-seven, With a faith as clear as the heights of the June-blue heaven, And a fancy as summer-new As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather.

Emery Walker, Ph.sc.

Emily Lady Tennyson from a drawing by G. F. Watts, R.A.