Attribution: attributed to Alfred Lord Tennyson when reprinted in the Echo in 1892 (Winston Graham, Memoirs of a Private Man, 2011, p. 49) and again in the West Briton in 1897. Tennyson's letters do show that he visited Perran Sands in 1860 (The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, ed. by Cecil Y. Lang, Vol. II, p. 265). However, this attribution is by no means undisputed. In Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1830-1862 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904), J.C Thomson writes 'In the West Briton of August 19, 1897, there was published a poem attributed to Tennyson, reprinted from All the Year Round for October,1864. It is supposed to have been written by Tennyson during a visit to Cornwall in 1860. But with a fairly complete knowledge of Tennyson at his worst—and at his worst Tennyson could be bad indeed!—the editor of the Booklet hesitates to assign to him the guilt of such doggerel as this' (p. 132).
