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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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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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All things human change.
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the shell must break before the bird can fly.
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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
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Our little systems have their day They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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