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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is 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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Man's word is God in man.
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O last regret, regret can die!
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
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I do but sing because I must and pipe but as the linnets sing.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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