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CHAPTER 2

Section 2.2 Practice!

1. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter k.

ML2 = k LtM2

Solution
k = ML2 = LM−1t−1
LtM2

2. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter g.

T− 1 tL = gL−2

Solution
g = T−1 tL = L3tT−1
−2
L

3. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter h.
It−1 h = N

Solution
h = It−1 = N I−1 t
N

4. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimensions of the parameter f.
3
MM−3 = a cos(f L)

Solution

The argument of a function must be dimensionless, so the parameter f must have the
dimension of reciprocal length. Note also that the left side of the equation is dimensionless.
Thus,

f = L−1

4
5. For the following dimensional equation, find the base dimension of the parameter p.
T = T log(T−2 t p)

Solution

The argument of a function must be dimensionless, so the parameter p must have the
dimensions

p = T2t−1

Section 2.4 Practice!

1. A structural engineer states that an I-beam in a truss has a design stress of “five million, six
hundred thousand pascals”. Write this stress using the appropriate SI unit prefix.

Solution

Stress = 5,600,000 Pa = 5.6 × 106 Pa = 5.6 MPa

2. The power cord on an electric string trimmer carries a current of 5.2 A. How many milli-
amperes is this? How many microamperes?

Solution

There are 103 mA and 106 μA in 1 A. Thus,

5.2 A = 5.2 × 103 mA = 5.2 × 106 μA

3. Write the pressure 7.2 GPa in scientific notation.

Solution

7.2 GPa = 7.2 × 109 Pa

4. Write the voltage 0.000875 V using the appropriate SI unit prefix.

Solution

0.000875 V = 0.875 × 10−3 V = 0.875 mV = 875 μV

5
5. In the following list, various quantities are written using SI units incorrectly. Write the
quantities using the correct form of SI units.

Incorrect Correct

a. 4.5 mw 4.5 mW
b. 8.75 M pa 8.75 MPa
c. 200 Joules/sec 200 J/s
d. 20 W/m2 K 20 W/m2 ⋅K
e. 3 Amps 3A

Section 2.6 Practice!

1. Essay.

2. Which is larger, a slug or a pound-mass?

Solution

From Appendix B,

1 kg = 2.20462 lbm = 0.06852 slug.

Dividing by 0.06852, we obtain

32.17 lbm = 1 slug.

Thus, a slug is larger than a pound-mass (by a factor of 32.17).

3. Consider a professional linebacker who weighs 310 lbf. What is his mass in slugs?

Solution

W = mg

m = W = 310 lbf
g 32.2 ft/s2

= 9.63 slug

6
4. A rock (ρ = 2300 kg/m3) is suspended by a single rope. Assuming the rock to be spherical
with a radius of 20 cm, what is the tension in the rope?

Solution

If the weight of the rope itself is neglected, the tension in the rope is equivalent to the weight
of the rock. The weight of the rock is

W = mg

where m is the mass of the rock and g = 9.81 m/s2.

m = ρ V = ρ (4/3) π R3

= (2300 kg/m3)(4/3)π(0.20 m)3

= 77.07 kg

W = mg = (77.07 kg)(9.81 m/s2)

= 756 N

Section 2.7 Practice!

1. A micro switch is an electrical switch that requires only a small force to operate it. If a micro
switch is activated by a 0.25-oz force, what is the force in units of N that will activate it?

Solution

0.25 oz × 1 lbf × 1N = 0.0695 N

16 oz 0.22481 lbf

2. At room temperature, water has a density of about 62.4 lbm/ft3. Convert this value to units
of slug/in3 and kg/m3.

Solution
62.4 lbm × 1 slug × 1 ft3 = 1.12 × 10−3 slug/in3
ft3 32.17 lbm (12 in)3

7
 3
62.4 lbm × 1 kg × (3.2808 ft)3 = 999.5 kg/m

ft3 2.20462 lbm (1 m)3

3. At launch, the Saturn V rocket that carried astronauts to the moon developed five million
pounds of thrust. What is the thrust in units of MN?

Solution
5 × 106 lbf × 1N = 2.22 × 107 N = 22.2 MN
0.22481 lbf

4. Standard incandescent light bulbs produce more heat than light. Assuming that a typical
house has twenty 60-W bulbs that are continuously on, how much heat in units of Btu/h is
supplied to the house from light bulbs if 90 percent of the energy produced by the bulbs is
in the form of heat?

Solution

0.90 × 20 × 60 W × 3.4121 Btu/h = 3685 Btu/h

1W

5. Certain properties of animal tissue (including human) can be approximated using those of
water. Using the density of water at room temperature, ρ = 62.4 lbm /ft3, calculate the weight
of a human male by approximating him as a cylinder with a length and diameter of 6 ft and
10 in, respectively.

Solution

The density of water in units of slug/ft3 is

62.4 lbm/ft3 × 0.001940 slug/ft3 = 1.9391 slug/ft3
3

0.06243 lbm/ft

The weight of the male is

W = mg

= ρVg = ρπR2Lg

= (1.9391 slug/ft3)π(0.4167 ft)2(6 ft)(32.2 ft/s2)

= 204 lbf

8
6. The standard frequency for electrical power in the U.S. is 60 Hz. For an electrical device that
operates on this power, how many times does the current alternate during a year?

Solution

The unit Hz is defined as one cycle per second. Thus,

60 cycle × 3600 s × 24 h × 365 day = 1.89 × 109 cycle/year

s h day year

END-OF-CHAPTER PROBLEMS

Dimensions

2.1 For the following dimensional equations, find the base dimensions of the parameter k.

a. MLt−2 = k ML−1t−2
Solution

k = MLt−2 = L2
ML−1 t−2
b. MLt−2 L−1 = k Lt−3

Solution
k = MLt−2L−1 = MtL−1
Lt−3
c. L2t−2 = k M4T2

Solution
−2 2 −4 −2 −2
k = L2t = L M T t
M4T2
d. ML2t−3 = k LT

Solution
9
 k = ML2t−3 = MLT−1t−3
LT
e. nLL3 k = T2M−2L

Solution
−2 2 −2 −1 −3
k = T2M L = T M n L

nLL3

f. MI2 k = nTM−3 L−1

Solution
−3 −1 −4 −2 −1

k = nTM L = nTM I L
MI2

g. IL2t = k2 M4t2

Solution
k2 = IL2t = IL2M −4t−1
M4 t 2

k = I1/2LM−2t−1/2

h. k3 T6M3L−5 = T−3t−6L

Solution
−3 −6 6 −3 −9 −6
k3 = T t L = L M T t
−5
6 3
TML

k = L2M−1T−3t−2
−1/2 −1 2 −1/2 4 −5/2 −3
i. T L I =k tT L

Solution
−1/2 −1/2 −1 2
k =T L I = 1
− −

t4T 5/2
L 3
k1/2
−5/2 −3 −2 −2 −2 4
10
k1/2 = t4T L =I L T t
−1/2 −1 2

T L I

11
 −1 −4 −4 8

k=I L T I
−2 −2 −2 −1
j. MLt = MLt sin(k L M )

Solution

The argument of the sine function must be dimensionless, so

k = L2M

k. T2n = T2n ln(k nT−1)

Solution

The argument of the natural logarithm must be dimensionless, so

k = n−1T

2.2 Is the following dimensional equation dimensionally consistent? Explain.

ML = ML cos(Lt)

No, this equation is not dimensionally consistent because the argument of the cosine
function, Lt, is not dimensionless.

2.3 Is the following dimensional equation dimensionally consistent? Explain.

t2LT = tLT log(tt−1)

No, this equation is not dimensionally consistent because the quantities on the left side of the
equation are not the same as those in front of the logarithm on the right side of the equation.
The argument of the logarithm is dimensionless, however.

2.4 Is the following dimensional equation dimensionally consistent? Explain.

TnT = TnT exp(MM−1)

Yes, the equation is dimensionally consistent because the argument of the exponential
function is dimensionless, and the dimensions on the left side of the equation are the same
as those in front of the exponential function.

12
Units

2.5 In the following list, various quantities are written using SI units incorrectly. Write the
quantities using the correct form of SI units.
Incorrect Correct

a. 10.6 secs 10.6 s

b. 4.75 amp 4.75 A
c. 120 M hz 120 MHz
d. 2.5 kw 2.5 kW
e. 0.00846 kg/μs 8460 kg/s
f. 90 W/m2 K 90 W/m2⋅K
g. 650 mGPa 650 MPa
h. 25 MN. 25 MN
i. 950 Joules 950 J
j. 1.5 m/s/s 1.5 m/s2

2.6 The dimension moment, sometimes referred to as torque, is defined as a force multiplied by
a distance and is expressed in SI units of newton-meter (N⋅m). In addition to moment, what
other physical quantities are expressed in SI units of N⋅m? What is the special name given
to this combination of units?

The quantities work, energy and heat are also expressed in SI units of N⋅ One newton-
m.
meter is equivalent to one joule. Thus, 1 N⋅m = 1 J.

2.7 Consider a 60-W light bulb. A watt (W) is defined as a joule per second (J/s). Write the
quantity 60 W in terms of the units newton (N), meter (m), and second (s).

60 W = 60 J/s = 60 N⋅m/s

2.8 A commonly used formula in electrical circuit analysis is P = IV, power (W) equals current
(A) multiplied by voltage (V). Using Ohm’s law, write a formula for power in terms of
current, I, and resistance, R.

Ohm’s law: V = IR

Thus, P = IV = I(IR) = I2R.

13
2.9 A particle undergoes an average acceleration of 8 m/s2 as it travels between two points during
a time interval of 2 s. Using unit considerations, derive a formula for the average velocity
of a particle in terms of average acceleration and time interval. Calculate the average
velocity of the particle for the numerical values given.

Solution

It is straightforward to remember that velocity is distance divided by time,

v = x/t

because we know that the units for velocity are length divided by time, or m/s in this
instance. To derive a formula that relates acceleration, velocity and time, we recognize that
acceleration differs from velocity by an extra time unit in the denominator, i.e., the SI units
for acceleration are m/s2, whereas the SI units for velocity are m/s. Hence, a formula that
relates acceleration, velocity and time is

v = at.

The average velocity of a particle with an average acceleration of 8 m/s2 over a time interval
of 2 s is

v = at = (8 m/s2)(2 s) = 16 m/s

2.10 A crane hoists a large pallet of materials from the ground to the top of a building. In hoisting
this load, the crane does 250 kJ of work during a time interval of 5 s. Using unit
considerations, derive a formula for power in terms of work and time interval. Calculate the
power expended by the crane in lifting the load.

Solution

Power is defined as the rate of doing work. Thus, the units for power in the SI system are
J/s, so the formula for power, P, is

P = W/t

where W is work and t is time. The power expended by the crane in lifting the load is

P = W = 250 kJ = 50 kJ/s = 50 kW
t 5s

14
Mass and weight

2.11 A spherical tank with a radius of 0.32 m is filled with water (ρ = 1000 kg/m3). Calculate the
mass and the weight of the water in SI units.

Solution

The mass of the water is

m = ρV = ρ (4/3)πR3

= (1000 kg/m3)(4/3)π(0.32 m)3

= 137.3 kg

The weight of the water is

W = mg

= (137.3 kg)(9.81 m/s2)

= 1347 N
2.12 A large indoor sports arena is cylindrical in shape. The height and diameter of the cylinder
are 120 m and 180 m, respectively. Calculate the mass and weight of air contained in the
sports arena in SI units if the density of air is ρ = 1.20 kg/m3.

Solution

The mass of the air is

m = ρV = ρπR2h

= (1.20 kg/m3)π(90 m)2(120 m)

= 3.66 × 106 kg

The weight of the air is

W = mg

= (3.664 × 106 kg)(9.81 m/s2)

15
 = 3.595 × 107 N = 36.0 MN

2.13 A 90-kg astronaut biologist searches for microbial life on Mars where the gravitational
acceleration is g = 3.71 m/s2. What is the weight of the astronaut in units of N and lbf?

Solution

The weight of the astronaut in units of N is

W = mg

= (90 kg)(3.71 m/s2)

= 334 N

The weight of the astronaut in units of lbf is

W = 334 N × 0.22481 lbf = 75.1 lbf

N

2.14 A 90-kg astronaut-biologist places a 4-lbm rock sample on two types of scales on Mars in
order to measure the rock’s weight. The first scale is a beam balance which operates by
comparing masses. The second scale operates by the compression of a spring. Calculate the
weight of the rock sample in (lbf) using (a) the beam balance and (b) the spring scale.

Solution

The mass of the rock in slugs is

m = 4 lbm × 1 slug = 0.1243 slug

32.17 lbm

From the previous problem, the gravitational acceleration on Mars is

gM = 3.71 m/s2 × 3.2808 ft/s2 = 12.17 ft/s2
1 m/s2
(a) Beam balance:

A beam balance measures weight by comparing the weight of an object with the weight of
a reference weight. The beam balance will indicate that a 4-lbm rock has a weight that is
numerically equivalent to the mass of the rock. Thus, the weight of the rock is the product
of its mass and the gravitational acceleration for Earth, gE = 32.2 ft/s2.

16
 W = mgE = (0.1243 slug)(32.2 ft/s2) = 4.00 lbf

(b) Spring scale:

A spring scale measures weight by the compression of a spring under the load of the object
being measured. The spring deflection depends on the local gravitational acceleration. Thus,
the weight of the rock as measured by the spring scale on Mars is

W = mgM = (0.1243 slug)(12.17 ft/s2) = 1.51 lbf

2.15 A copper plate measuring 1.2 m × 0.8 m × 3 mm has a density of ρ = 8940 kg/m3. Find the
mass and weight of the plate in SI units.

Solution

The mass of the plate is

m = ρV = ρ(LWH)

= (8940 kg/m3)(1.2 m)(0.8 m)(0.003 m)

= 25.75 kg

The weight of the plate is

W = mg

= (25.75 kg)(9.81 m/s2)

= 253 N

2.16 A circular tube of stainless steel (ρ = 7840 kg/m3) has an inside radius of 1.85 cm and an
outside radius of 2.20 cm. If the tube is 35 cm long, what is the mass and weight of the tube
in SI units?

Solution

The mass of the tube, which is a hollow cylinder, is

m = ρV = ρπ(Ro2 − Ri2)L

= (7840 kg/m3)π[(0.0220 m)2 − (0.0185 m)2](0.35 m)

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DAY WITH THE

POET TENNYSON ***
 TENNYSON
DAYS WITH THE POETS
A Day with Tennyson
"I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

"And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on for ever."
Painting by E. W. Haslehust.THE BROOK.
A DAY WITH THE POET
TENNYSON
 ·LONDON·
HODDER & STOUGHTON

In the same Series.

Longfellow.
Keats.
Browning
Wordsworth.
Burns.
Scott.
Byron.
Shelley.
 A DAY WITH TENNYSON.
ENNYSON was no recluse. He shunned society in the
ordinary London sense, but he welcomed kindred
spirits to his beautiful home, with large-hearted
cordiality. To be acquainted with Farringford was in
itself a liberal education. Farringford was an ideal
home for a great poet. To begin with, it was somewhat
secluded and remote from the world's ways, especially in the early
'fifties, when the Isle of Wight was much more of a terra incognita
than traffic now permits. One had to travel down some hundred
miles from town, cross from the quaint little New Forest port of
Lymington to the still quainter little old-world Yarmouth—"a
mediæval Venice," the poet called it—and then drive some miles to
Freshwater, before one attained the stately loveliness of Farringford
embowered in trees.

"Where, far from noise and smoke of town,

I watch the twilight falling brown
All around a careless-ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down."

* * * *
"Groves of pine on either hand,
To break the blast of winter, stand;
And further on, the hoary Channel
Tumbles a billow on chalk and sand."

Lines to the Rev. F. D. Maurice.

The interior of the house—a very ancient one—was no less ideal

than its outward aspect, "it was like a charmed palace, with green
walks without and speaking walls within." And its occupants crowned
all—the ethereally lovely mistress with her "tender spiritual face,"
and the master, tall, broad-shouldered, and massive, dark-eyed and
dark-browed, his voice full of deep organ-tones and delicate
inflections, his mind shaped to all fine issues. "The wisest man," said
Thackeray, "that ever I knew."

Farringford was the ideal home of the great poet. "A charmed palace
with green walks without,"

"Where, far from noise and smoke of town,

I watch the twilight falling brown
All around a careless-ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down."
 Painting by E. W. Haslehust.
FARRINGFORD.

Subject to slight inevitable variations, a certain method and routine

governed the day of Tennyson. He had definite working-times,
indoors and out, and accustomed habits of family life. The morning
brought him letters from all parts of England: there was hardly any
great man who did not desire to exchange salutations and discuss
world-subjects with a thinker so far above the rest. The poet, with
the prophetic soul of genius, had always been well in advance of his
times.
 "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly
dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing
warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging through the
thunderstorm;
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were
furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

* * * *
Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us
range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of
change.
Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day;
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."

Locksley Hall.

The daily papers are somewhat late in reaching the Isle of Wight:
but the poet could find inspiration even in a source so apparently
prosaic as a Times column. He noted down some of those valiant
and soul-stirring episodes which go unrecorded save by a passing
paragraph: and the poem which, perhaps, has held the public fancy
longest, the Charge of the Light Brigade, was written a few minutes
after reading the Times' description of the battle containing the
phrase "Someone had blundered."

"Half a league, half a league,

 Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"'Forward, the Light Brigade!'

Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

"Flash'd all their sabres bare,

Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there.
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd;
Plunged in the battery-smoke
 Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred.

"Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back thro' the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

"When can their glory fade?

O, the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!"

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

A little while after breakfast, Tennyson would retire to his "den" on

the top storey, for that "sacred half-hour" devoted to poetical
composition, and assisted by his beloved pipe, during which nobody
dared disturb him. This den, or study, formed a setting worthy of its
inmate. Every inch of wall was covered with portrait, sketches,
drawings. Almost every distinguished name of the nineteenth
century was in some manner represented here: the poet literally
worked surrounded by his friends. And in this congenial atmosphere
he devoted himself to that life-long pursuit of his, as he has imaged
it in the "Gleam," which "flying onward, wed to the melody, sang
through the world."

Whatever respective values a future generation may set upon

Tennyson's work, there can be little doubt that he himself considered
the Idylls of the King, with its inner spiritual meanings, as his
greatest work. "There is no single fact or incident in the Idylls," he
said, "which cannot be explained without any mystery or allegory
whatever." Hence their appeal to the least mystical reader, through
sheer beauty of language and superb pictorial effect. But at the
same time he let it be known that his whole story was inherently one
of pure symbolism: starting from the suggestion that Arthur
represented conscience. This idea is predominant, without undue
insistence upon it, in Guinevere.

"Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes,

I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere,
I, whose vast pity almost makes me die
To see thee laying there thy golden head,
My pride in happier summers, at my feet.
... Let no man dream, but that I love thee still."
 Painting by W. H. Margetson.
GUINEVERE.

"Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat

There in the holy house at Almesbury,
Weeping, none with her save a little maid,
A novice: one low light betwixt them burned,
Blurred by the creeping mist; for all abroad,
Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full,
The white mist, like a face-cloth to the face,
Clung to the dead earth, and the land was still.

* * * *
There rode an armed warrior to the doors,
A murmuring whisper thro' the nunnery ran,
Then on a sudden a cry, 'The King.' She sat
Stiff-stricken, listening; but when armed feet
Thro' the long gallery from the outer doors
Rang, coming, prone from off her seat she fell
And grovell'd with her face against the floor:
There with her milk-white arms and shadowy hair
She made her face a darkness from the King;
And in the darkness heard his armed feet
Pause by her; then came silence, then a voice,
Monotonous and hollow like a ghost's,
Denouncing judgment, but, tho' changed, the King's.

* * * *
'Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes,
I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere,
I, whose vast pity almost makes me die
To see thee laying there thy golden head,
My pride in happier summers, at my feet.
... Let no man dream, but that I love thee still,
Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul,
And so thou lean on our fair father Christ,
Hereafter in that world where all are pure
We two may meet before high God, and thou
Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know
I am thine husband—not a smaller soul,
Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that,
I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence.
... But hither shall I never come again,
Never lie by thy side: see thee no more—
Farewell!'
And while she grovell'd at his feet,
 She felt the King's breath wander o'er her neck,
And in the darkness o'er her fallen head
Perceived the waving of his hands that blest.

Then, listening till those armed steps were gone,

Rose the pale Queen, and in her anguish found
The casement: 'peradventure,' so she thought,
'If I might see his face, and not be seen.'
And lo, he sat on horseback at the door!
And near him the sad nuns with each a light,
Stood, and he gave them charge about the Queen,
To guard and foster her for evermore."

Idylls of the King.

In the course of the day the poet would devote considerable time
and energy to his favourite exercise of garden work. To plant trees
and shrubs, to roll the lawn, to dig the kitchen garden, and lovingly
to tend the simple flowers which he had set, was his constant
delight as long as his strength sufficed. He had a passionate love,
and an extraordinary knowledge of Nature: he rejoiced in watching
the birds in his great cedar, ilex and fir trees, and his mind was
thoroughly attuned to the sweet influences of colour and foliage.
Few else could have written that unsurpassable lyric, Come into the
Garden, Maud.

"Come into the garden, Maud,

For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the rose is blown.
For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky.
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die....

"And the soul of the rose went into my blood,

As the music clash'd in the hall;
And long by the garden lake I stood,
For I heard your rivulet fall
From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood,
Our wood, that is dearer than all;

"From the meadow your walks have left so sweet

That whenever a March wind sighs
He sets the jewel-print of your feet
In violets blue as your eyes,
To the woody hollows in which we meet
And the valleys of Paradise.

"The slender acacia would not shake

One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
They sighed for the dawn and thee.

"Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,

Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin, and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
 To the flowers and be their sun.

"There has fallen a splendid tear

From the passion-flower at the gate,
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;'
And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;'
The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;'
And the lily whispers, 'I wait.'"
Maud.

The same love of Nature made his eye alert for every obscurest
beauty, when he put aside his gardening tools and started, as was
his wont, for a stroll with some friend along the glorious cliffs of
Freshwater. Those were favoured folk, who, like Mrs. Thackeray
Ritchie, "walked with Tennyson along High Down, treading the turf,
listening to his talk, while the gulls came sideways, flashing their
white breasts against the edge of the cliff, and the Poet's cloak
flapped time to the gusts of the west wind." This cloak and the Poet
were practically synonymous. It figures—a first edition of it—in all
the early sketches of him by Spedding, Fitzgerald, etc. (1830-40)
and to the last, one can hardly imagine him apart from it.
During these quiet rambles he was wont to discuss with enthusiasm
the religious and social problems of the day; they weighed heavily
upon his thoughtful mind. His philosophy was a hopeful one, rooted
in Christian belief, yet constantly over-shadowed by fugitive
misgivings and by a sense of the impermanence of human existence.
And while voicing these misgivings in lines which might give pause
to weaker minds, he never lost his firm faith in right, in duty, and in
ultimate rectification of all apparent wrong.
"Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin, and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
To the flowers and be their sun."
 Painting by W. H. Margetson.
MAUD.

"Oh, yet we trust that somehow good

Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;

"That nothing walks with aimless feet;

That not one life shall be destroy'd,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;

"That not a worm is cloven in vain;

That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another's gain.

"Behold, we know not anything;

I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.

"So runs my dream; but what am I?

An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.

* * * *
"Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
 So careless of the single life;

"That I, considering everywhere

Her secret meaning in her deeds,
And finding that of fifty seeds
She often brings but one to bear,

"I falter where I firmly trod,

And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God,

"I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,

And gather dust and chaff, and call
To what I feel is Lord of all,
And faintly trust the larger hope."

In Memoriam.

But these mysteries of life and death will not bear too persistent a
contemplation: and presently Tennyson, discarding them in favour of
less sombre subjects, would regale his hearers with marvellous
recitations. "The roll of his great voice acted sometimes almost like
an incantation." The old-world classical legends had always found in
him a noble exponent; and nowhere was his peculiar felicity of
diction and delicate sense of sound better exemplified than in
Œnone.

"'O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida,

Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
Hear me, O Earth, hear me, O Hills, O Caves
That house the cold crown'd snake! O mountain brooks,
I am the daughter of a River-God,
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