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A day may sink or save a realm.
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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A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room
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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
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And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
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There twice a day the Severn fills The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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In the long years liker they must grow The man be more of woman, she of man.
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