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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I cannot rest from travel I will drink Life to the lees.
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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
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Love lieth deep Love dwells not in lip-depths Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword Evolution here.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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Love lieth deep Love dwells not in lip-depths.
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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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