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God and Nature met in light.
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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
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That which we are, we are.
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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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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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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
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From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
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What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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