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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
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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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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
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Our little systems have their day They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.
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I cannot rest from travel I will drink Life to the lees.
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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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Our wills are ours, we know not how Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
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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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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.
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