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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
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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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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
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The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
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For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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I waited for the train at Coventry I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
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