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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
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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Oh good gray head which all men knew!
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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