...dive and they shall run Catch the wild goat by the hair and hurl their lances in the sun. Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miser* erable books. But now speaks second nature, intellectual development or Pride, one and the same...

...man is superior to the lower animals, so civilized white people are superior to dark-skinned savages "with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,...beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains!"32 In this early poem, Tennyson foresaw only perpetual progress and the dawning of universal...

...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...fancy! but I know my words are wild, But I count the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...

...savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race . . . (167-68) — only to abruptly repudiate the dream: I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! (175-76) This overt racism at the heart of one of the most famous credos of the Victorian period is...

...and they shall run. Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks....with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books - (697-698). Bailey disapproved of these lines in Tennyson's poem, and they reminded the educator of...

...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.24 Bailey disapproved of these lines in Tennyson's poem, and they reminded the educator of the...

...in the wake of an uncritical reading of 'Anacaona'); only to repress the vision with iron resolve: 'Fool, again the dream, the fancy! but I know my words are wild'. Like Amours de Voyage, the poems which I have been discussing investigate the pressures exerted on...

...and catch the wild goat by the hair, there came also with full assurance the comfortable reaction — I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! What fault have we to find with this? Taking it at its surface value — none. Yet we are not, many...

...mutton-headed, they shall romp the prairie dell Plough the furrow, clout the baseball: some may make the NHL Fool, again the dream, the fancy! But I know my words are wild, For I count the gray bucolic lower than the urban child. I, forsake my native city - vacant of our...