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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.
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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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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