Chapter LXXXIII
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"The northern shore" must simply mean our northern region.
He reproaches the New Year for "delaying long." Its advent would cheer him, bringing the light and sweetness of Spring--for
"Can trouble live with April days,
Or sadness in the summer moons?"
He would have the New Year bring all its customary flowers--
"Deep tulips dash'd with fiery dew,
Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire"--
a sight of these would set free the sorrow in his blood,
"And flood a fresher throat with song."
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A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'Chapter LXXXIII
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