The Larger Hope

Came across this selection from In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Terrific stuff - if you've never read the entire poem - it's worth it. It was a favorite of Queen Victoria, and considered by many among the greatest poems of the 19th century. Guess it's poetry week around here.

From Wikipedia:

It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833. Because it was written over a period of 17 years, its medi...