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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
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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Our wills are ours, we know not how Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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She has a lovely face God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
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