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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
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My mind is clouded with a doubt.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand Ring out the darkness of the land Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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The year is dying in the night.
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She is coming, my own, my sweet Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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Here at the quiet limit of the world.
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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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