If all the others had lived, would the quandary and the struggle between opposing wills have been as great for each one as for this sole survivor?
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
This alliance may have deepened the attachment of the friends; but was not needed to account for the survivor writing of the departed as "more than my brothers are to me."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
If the survivor, who had seen and admired all these qualities, had not allowed such wisdom to make him wise, then shame be on him!
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty