10 JULY 1880, Page 14

POETRY.

(Translation of Mr. Tennyson's Epitaph on Sir John Franklin, from the Monument in Westminster Abbey.]

"Nor here : the white North has thy bones, and thou, Heroic sailor-soul,

Art passing on thine happier voyage now, Toward no earthly pole."

Non Mc manta iacet fortissimus : ossa nivalis Arctos babet, sed pars non moritura viri Navigat inmensum auspiciis melioribus aequor, Limina non nostri dum petit alta poli. A. J. C.