_Tennyson's "In Memoriam."_--Perhaps some of your readers may be able to
explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful
series of poems:
"I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things."
The following stanza, also in the poem numbered 87., much needs
interpretation:
"Or cooled within the glooming wave,--
And last, returning from afar,
_Before the crimson-circled star_
_Had fallen into her father's grave._"