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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.
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 mirror crack'd from side to side The curse has come upon me, cried The Lady of Shalott
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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