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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
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I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
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