StNicholas [serial] . m {/? ^ A LITTLE GIRLS GLIMPSE OF TENNYSON. * T — By Edith M. Nicholl. THE MEMORIALCROSS. Many readers of St. Nicho-las have heard of the TennysonMemorial Cross, erected on Bea-con Down in the Isle of Wight,and dedicated to the poets mem-ory on August 6, 1897, the anni-versary of his birth ; and some ofyou perhaps remember the storytold in St. Nicholas for June, 1897,of the little girls first meet-ST ing with the great poet onanother 6th of August inthe far past, on a sun-lit afternoon,with a haystack for a tea-table,when both were celebrating birth-days, she her third an
StNicholas [serial] . m {/? ^ A LITTLE GIRLS GLIMPSE OF TENNYSON. * T — By Edith M. Nicholl. THE MEMORIALCROSS. Many readers of St. Nicho-las have heard of the TennysonMemorial Cross, erected on Bea-con Down in the Isle of Wight,and dedicated to the poets mem-ory on August 6, 1897, the anni-versary of his birth ; and some ofyou perhaps remember the storytold in St. Nicholas for June, 1897,of the little girls first meet-ST ing with the great poet onanother 6th of August inthe far past, on a sun-lit afternoon,with a haystack for a tea-table,when both were celebrating birth-days, she her third and he his forty-fifth. To that little girl of the long ago the poetsfavorite walk, the goal of which the new crossnow marks in place of the old beacon, was fa-miliar from end to end; and Maidens Croft andthe high Down,and the well-known figure pacingthe long meadow and climbing the steep ascent,were no mere imaginary pictures, but actual,every-day realities. The beacon stood wherethe cross stands now—at the extre
Size: 1816px × 1375px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordodgemar, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookyear1873
