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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
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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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.
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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
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I cannot rest from travel I will drink Life to the lees.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, Am I your debtor? And the Lord--Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
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Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall not die.
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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts Or all the same as if he had not been?
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.
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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
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