text:  For thou dear noble Elizabeth around whose ample brow as often as thy sweet countenance rises upon the darkness I fancy a tiara of light or a gleaming _aureola_ in token of thy premature intellectual grandeur--thou whose head for its superb developments was the astonishment of science[4]--thou next but after an interval of happy years thou also wert summoned away from our nursery; and the night which for me gathered upon that event ran after my steps far into life; and perhaps at this day I resemble little for good or for ill that which else I should have been