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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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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The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.
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How fares it with the happy dead?
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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Tho' much is taken, much abides.
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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
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Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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