Sir Edward Jones attended the funeral of Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey, but he didn't like it. He knew this great poet, the virtues of his character, the abiding faith in his soul, the influence of his life, and he said the funeral was too sad and somber. "I would have given something," he wrote, "for a banner or two to wave, and much more I would have given if a chorister had come out of the triforium and rent the air with a trumpet."