Excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vol. 1: A Memoir None can truly write his single day, And none can write it for him upon earth. However he wished that, if I deemed it better, the incidents of his life should be given as Shortly as might be without comment, but that my notes should be final and full enough to preclude the chance of further and unauthentic biographies. For those who cared to know about his literary history he wrote Merlin and the Gleam. From his boyhood he had felt the magic of Merlin - that spirit of poetry - which bade him know his power and follow throughout his work a pure and high ideal, with a simple and single devotedness and a desire to ennoble the life of the world, and Which helped him through doubts and difficulties to endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Great the Master, And sweet the Magic, When over the valley, In early summers, Over the mountain, On human faces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.