Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Tennyson’s Love for Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Tennyson’s Love for Flowers.

An elaborately illustrated article, “Tennyson and His Friends at Freshwater,” by V. C. Scott-O’Connor, appears In the Century. The author says of the poet: Willingly, he took no part in the destruction of life. “His sympathy with nature led him to mourn over the cutting down of trees, as if they were, like the grove in Dante's ‘lnferno,’ the abode of his personal friends,” and he never would consent to his flowers at Farringford being plucked. “I can very well remember the look on his face,” Miss Weld, his niece, tells me, “when he met me, one day, returning from his meadows, with a wheelbarrow full of fading daffodils, plucked by me with the lavish hand of a child. He gazed at them very sorrowfully, and in gentle words expressed his regret that so much beautiful life had been needlessly sacrificed.”