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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.
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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more The leaf is dead, the yearning past away New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
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