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IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 22, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: The path by which we twain did go
Last Line: The shadow sits and waits for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Friendship


And, crown'd with all the season lent,
The path by which we twain did go,
Which led by tracts that pleased us well,
Through four sweet years arose and fell,
From flower to flower, from snow to snow.
And we with singing cheer'd the way,
And, crown'd with all the season lent,
From April on to April went,
And glad at heart from May to May.
But where the path we walked began
To slant the fifth autumnal slope,
As we descended, following Hope,
There sat the Shadow feared of man;
Who broke our fair companionship,
And spread his mantle dark and cold,
And wrapped thee formless in the fold,
And dulled the murmur on thy lip.
And bore thee where I could not see
Nor follow, tho' i walk in haste,
And think that somewhere in the waste
The Shadow sits and waits for me.




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