...think I use the word illusion bitterly — it is by illusion that our finite nature is drawn on. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." What are these illusions, if we examine them? Are they not the offspring and the expression of faith...

...of Paradise. Sure then, thy sweetness might a mortal move And win at once to more than mortal love. God gives us Love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone ! TENNYSON. L' ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. II faut l'avoir connu I'affreux malheur de vivre loin de ce qu'on...

...laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. IT. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn 'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death did pass ; One went, who...

...philosophy of the poem is that which the poet afterwards so tersely expressed in the stanza : — •' God gives us love, something to love He lends us;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." The poem, though philosophic in intention, is idyllic, because the philosophy is pictorial, and the...

...J. A, on the occasion, as we learn from the poem itself, of the loss of a dear brother. ' God give us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when...and love is left alone. ' This is the curse of time. Alas! In grief I am not all unlearned ; Once thro' mine own doors death did pass ; One went who never...

...laps our limhs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. Iv. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse of tune. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn 'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death...

...he came a pilf'ring so, He shou'd from her full lips derive Hony enough to fill his hive. HEERICK. GOD gives us love ; something to love He lends us...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN. THE silver moon's enamour'd beam Steals softly through the night, To...

...its minutest part, More than another's depth of feeling ? Li GOD gives us Love. Something to lovt, He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls uff and love is left alone ! TEX L'ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. IL faut l'avoir connu l'affreux malheur de...

...we lean on most, • Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost: IV. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse of time. Alas! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death...

...depends on their labour. THE PAST XLIV.] THIRD SERIES. [AUGUST, 1873. WAITING A MAIL. CHAPTER IV. " GOD gives us love, something to love He lends us,...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." TENNYSON. IT was so late when Virginia returned from her walk, that she had barely time to make the...