ABSTRACT
Published as the dedication of 1880. It was added by pen to a Lincoln trial edition of 1880. T.’s grandson was born 20 Nov. 1878, so this poem was written c. May 1880 (l. 3). Cp. Little Aubrey (III 637). The title in H.Lpr 236 is To Alfred Tennyson, babe, from Alfred Tennyson, Septuagenarian.
