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Title: To---- [Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn] Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson [More Titles by Tennyson] The friend to whom these verses were addressed was Joseph William Blakesley, third Classic and Senior Chancellor's Medallist in 1831, and afterwards Dean of Lincoln. Tennyson said of him: "He ought to be Lord Chancellor, for he is a subtle and powerful reasoner, and an honest man".--'Life', i., 65. He was a contributor to the 'Edinburgh' and 'Quarterly Reviews', and died in April, 1885. See memoir of him in the 'Dictionary of National Biography'. Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn,
Low-cowering shall the Sophist sit;
Weak Truth a-leaning on her crutch,
[Footnote 2: 1830. "Which" for "that".] [Footnote 3: 1830. Through and through.] [Footnote 4: The reference is to Genesis xxxii. 24-32.] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |