Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Tennyson and Wellington. [ARTICLE]

Tennyson and Wellington.

In Tennyson’s ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington are the lines: “Not once or twice in our fair islandstory, The path of duty was the way to glory.” The lines, thrice repeated, with slight variations, are a paraphrase of a remark of the Iron Duke which had deeply impressed the poet. Some one told Wellington that the word “glory” never occurred in his dispatches. “If glory had been my object,” he answered, “the doing my duty must have' been the means.”