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Authority forgets a dying king.
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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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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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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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
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God and Nature met in light.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
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