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PATRIOTIC POEMS.

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the law of the land that every man child in it shall be trained to the use of arms.

"I have the honour to he yours faithfully,

"A. Tennyson."

The Dedication of the "Idylls of the King" to the Memory of the late Prince Consort, was added in the new edition of 1862.

"The Exhibition Ode" (May the First, 1862).^[1] "Times," April 24,^[2] and July 14th; printed both times incorrectly and with omissions. A correct copy

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"Thou noble Father of her kings to be."
Dedication to "Idylls of the King."

"O silent father of our Kings to be."
Exhibition Ode.

Quoting the latter line, the late Lord Lytton took occasion to make a very graceful amende honorable for his former attack, when he said publicly, "We must comfort ourselves with the thought, so exquisitely expressed by our Poet Laureate, that the Prince we lament is still
'The silent father of our kings to be.'"
Speech at Hertford, October 9, 1862.
↑ A ludicrous misprint in the Ode as it appeared in this day's "Times," copied with amazing stolidity into all the other newspapers, called forth the following letter from the poet himself:—

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"Thou noble Father of her kings to be."
Dedication to "Idylls of the King."

"O silent father of our Kings to be."
Exhibition Ode.

Quoting the latter line, the late Lord Lytton took occasion to make a very graceful amende honorable for his former attack, when he said publicly, "We must comfort ourselves with the thought, so exquisitely expressed by our Poet Laureate, that the Prince we lament is still
'The silent father of our kings to be.'"
Speech at Hertford, October 9, 1862.

[p117-2] A ludicrous misprint in the Ode as it appeared in this day's "Times," copied with amazing stolidity into all the other newspapers, called forth the following letter from the poet himself:—

[1]

[2]