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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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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights She heard the torrents meet.
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For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
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As the husband is the wife is thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
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He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts Or all the same as if he had not been?
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It was my duty to have loved the highest It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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The noonday quiet holds the hill.
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He is all fault who has no fault at all.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
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