and Tibullus. As it is I can scarcely scan his verses."[1]
To the poems included under this heading may be added some half-dozen printed for the first time in the re-issue of 1842: "Lady Clara Vere de Vere;" the Conclusion of "The May Queen;" "The Blackbird;" "You ask me why, though ill at ease;" "Of old sat Freedom on the heights;" "Love thou thy land;" and "The Goose;" which, with one exception, were written in 1833,[2] and all of which were probably seen by Arthur Hallam. I am inclined to think that "The Two Voices," as it is dated 1833, was also written before his death in that year.
We have already had occasion to allude to Richard Monckton Milnes as a co-temporary fellow-collegian of Hallam and Tennyson. A few months after Arthur Hallam's death, Milnes published a small volume of poems in the dedication of which "To Henry Hallam, Esq.," we find the following tribute to Arthur's memory: "If I have ever entertained plea-
