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" Your lyrics are full of charm and here and there
touched with that unpurchasable magic that sets the
poet above kings. But on the whole I do not think
you have what Matthew Arnold called the ' Lyric Cry '
that swift and passionate poignancy and ecstasy of
pain or joy which in the simplest, most moving and
final words find immortality."

" I have been immensely interested in your home
coming to Islam after long and devious journeys through
classical and Gothic landscapes as well as Victorian
gardens and castles."

TENNISON.

" I know many people in grief and sorrow through
the war, who, if they could read what you have written,
would be helped and comforted.

I know you are indifferent to fame (" People too
often mistake notoriety for fame, and one can be great
without being famous/' you said in 1894); but (even
if you prefer not to give your name) I venture to think
that those poems ought to be published in England and
widely circulated,—because of the revelation they
would be to many who are groping in the dark,
and the happiness they would give to others who
share your ideals but despair of adequately expressing
truths which seem too high to be put into mortal words."

You could help and cheer people who would not be
helped bv Dante—because your poems are so much
easier reading for an untrained mind. They are as