SA RENOMMEE

poème à ce Lauréat ' qui dort aujourd'hui tout près du grand ancêtre sous les dalles de la fameuse abbaye.

• Rien de plus juste et de plus beau que les éloges de Tennyson : I read before my eyelids dropt llieir shade

The Legend of good Women long ago Sung by the morning starof song, who made

His music heard below ; Dan Cliaucer, the flrst warbler, vrhose sweet breath

Preluded those melodious bursts that 011 The spacious times of Great Elisabeth

With sounds that écho still.

A Dream of fair Women.

A rapprocher du témoignage de Coleridge -. « J take unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to nie in old âge. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectiy free from the least touch of sickly nielancholy or morbid droopingl » Table Talk, conversation du 15 mars 1834.