. Memories of the Tennysons . ng updreams of a past, as powerfully as aged vane orquaint carved panels could have done. But there was another feature of this HarringtonHall which may well have impressed the rooks from miles round came thither for by the hall in a square walled enclosure wasthe sweetest and primmest of old-fashioned Eliza-bethan gardens, while a high embanked terracewalk gave the ladies a fair prospect of gardenbeds and level pastures beyond. If Charles Tennyson Turner may have remem-bered Harrington as he wrote his sonnet entitled The Rookery, it is not strai
. Memories of the Tennysons . ng updreams of a past, as powerfully as aged vane orquaint carved panels could have done. But there was another feature of this HarringtonHall which may well have impressed the rooks from miles round came thither for by the hall in a square walled enclosure wasthe sweetest and primmest of old-fashioned Eliza-bethan gardens, while a high embanked terracewalk gave the ladies a fair prospect of gardenbeds and level pastures beyond. If Charles Tennyson Turner may have remem-bered Harrington as he wrote his sonnet entitled The Rookery, it is not straining the force ofearly association too far to imagine that LordTennyson had this garden and the quiet rookerybeyond it in his mind as much as the gardens ofSwainston when he wrote, Birds in the high Hall-gardenWhen twilight was falling,Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,They were crying and calling. This brings one to speak of the flowers that are,as readers of the Tennyson poets know, so con-stantly in mind. I know no English neighbour-. SOMERSBY AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 77 hood where the old-fashioned herbaceous gardenplots are so rich and rare in colour as the gardensof the great and little in that Somersby neighbour-hood. In the spring, one must turn to the westerncoasts to find the glory of rhododendron andazalea; but let the fortunate traveller find his way,on a September morning, into the old SomersbyRectory garden or into the garden of HarringtonVicarage or Harrington Hall, or peep into any ofthe Enderby cottage plots, and he will know whatwas in Tennysons mind as he wrote his Ode toMemory, and will feel he has not only lookedupon hollyhocks and tiger-lilies without equalfor beauty of stature and richness of bloom, buthas seen such sunflowers ray round with flametheir disks of seed, and breathed the balm ofsuch rose-carnations as he shall never be ablequite to forget. The old times have pleasantly returned to us,and brought back just the same old herbaceousplants as rejoiced the poet
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