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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
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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What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
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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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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart one half will flutter here, one there.
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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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Oh good gray head which all men knew!
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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Cast all your cares on God that anchor holds.
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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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