The tearless grief of the young wife when her dead warrior is brought home is another example of extreme emo tion, so characteristic of the Victorian poetry. FOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD. From "THE PRINCESS." By Tennyson. "Iome they brought her warrior dead: 'she must weep or she will die.' Then they praised him, soft and low, Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Like a summer tempest came her teers, 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.'" The story of angelic ministry told by the Elizabethans is beautiful and shows a spirit of faith and love. See "ANGELIC MINISTRY" by Edmund penser. Songs of Three Centuries page 7. With this comparea sad poem which tells of the absence of angelic ministry. See the touching little poem called "TE LITTLE FAIR SOUL" by Menella B. Smedley. (Vic. An. page 219.) In the Elizabethan Are it was not uncommon to iden tify real persons with fictitious characters. This is seen in the poem on the death of Robert Earl of Huntingt on. ROBIN HOOD'S DIRGE By Munday and Chettle. (Schell ing pare 92) "Veep, weep, ye woodmen, wail, Here lies his primer and his beads, And, as they fall, shed tears and say And on to Wakefield take your way. In the above song we have a balad stanza with its quaint refrain "Well-a, well-a-day," which is peculiarly |