"IN MEMORIAM." 
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manner of spirit had animated the poor dust 
beneath our feet, capable of playing on the chords 
of Mr. Tennyson's inmost nature, and of awaken- 
ing strains of such perfect harmony. As in 
memory I now recal that hour and the friend by 
my side, the name of Arthur Hallam fades away, 
and another takes its place; but the beautiful 
Latin inscription, rendered in simple EngHsh verse 
by a loving hand, still reads thus — 
" Farewell, thou dearest, best beloved, 
Tom from our longing eyes ! 
May we who mourn thee rest with thee, 
With thee together rise." 
I may not venture to describe Arthur Hallam 's 
resting-place. We read in In Memoriam : " — 
" The Danube to the Severn gave 
The darken'd heart that beat no more ; 
They laid him by the pleasant shore, 
And in the hearing of the wave." 
As Ceterach is in my mind the embodiment of 
all that is pure and enduring in friendship, so 
Botrychium lunaria, or the Moonwort (occupying, 
like Ceterach, a separate niche in Ferndom), 
represents all that is capricious and unstable. It 
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