In Memoriam Page #2

"In Memoriam" by Charles Dickens is not an actual work by Dickens; rather, it seems you may be referring to "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which is a poem written in memory of Tennyson's close friend Arthur Hallam. Tennyson's work explores themes of grief, love, and the search for meaning in the face of loss. If you're looking specifically for a Dickensian work, please let me know the correct title, and I would be happy to help!

• Essay

								

some consciousness of duty done and Christian hope throughout life humbly
cherished, may have caused his own heart so to throb, when he passed away
to his Redeemer’s rest!

He was found peacefully lying as above described, composed, undisturbed,
and to all appearance asleep, on the twenty-fourth of December 1863.  He
was only in his fifty-third year; so young a man that the mother who
blessed him in his first sleep blessed him in his last.  Twenty years
before, he had written, after being in a white squall:

    And when, its force expended,
    The harmless storm was ended,
    And, as the sunrise splendid
       Came blushing o’er the sea;
    I thought, as day was breaking,
    My little girls were waking,
    And smiling, and making
       A prayer at home for me.

Those little girls had grown to be women when the mournful day broke that
saw their father lying dead.  In those twenty years of companionship with
him they had learned much from him; and one of them has a literary course
before her, worthy of her famous name.

On the bright wintry day, the last but one of the old year, he was laid
in his grave at Kensal Green, there to mingle the dust to which the
mortal part of him had returned, with that of a third child, lost in her
infancy years ago.  The heads of a great concourse of his fellow-workers
in the Arts were bowed around his tomb.
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