BARTON MANOR, ISLE OF WIGHT 



cut and carve, to fill up here and there, to hope 

 and to love." 



On entering the newly built Osborne House 

 a suggestion was made to throw an old shoe in 

 for luck, but the Prince said : " We have a 

 hymn for these occasions ; it begins, ' God bless 

 our going out, nor less our coming in, and make 

 them sure. God bless our daily bread, and bless 

 whate'er we do, whate'er endure ; till death 

 unto His peace awake us, and heirs of His 

 salvation make us.' ' The Prince had an 

 organ at Osborne, and Lady Lyttelton has 

 left a record of the strong impression his 

 beautiful playing made upon her, as she sat by 

 the window gazing upon one of the wonderful 

 sunsets to be seen from the island. 



The myrtle tree in the garden, struck from a 

 sprig of myrtle in the Princess Royal's (Crown 

 Princess of Prussia) wedding bouquet, has now 

 grown to an immense size and furnishes a sprig for 

 every royal bride, none going to the altar without 

 one. Twice Queen Victoria sent one to Petrograd, 

 once for the Archduchess Marie's wedding with 

 the Duke of Edinburgh, and again for that of 

 Princess Alix of Hesse with the present Tsar. 



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