The complete works of Alfred Tennyson
Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
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(RareBooksClub.com, Oct. 12, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... sublime repression of himself. And in what limits, and how tenderly;;ot swaving to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage, ground For pleasure; hut thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blanw less life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot: for where is he, Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier life, a more unstain'd, than his? Or how should England dreaming of his sons Hope more for these than some inheritance Of such a life, a heart, a mind as thine, Thou noble Father of her Kings to be, Laborious for her people and her poor--Voice in the rich dawn of au auip'.ei day--Far-sighted euramoner of War and Waste To fruitful strifes and rivalries of peace--Sweet nature gilded by the gracious gleam Of letters, dear to Science, dear to Art, Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed. Beyond all titles, and a household name. Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good. Break not, O woman's-heart, but still endure; Break not, for thou art Royal, but endure, Remembering all the beauty of that star Which shone so close beside Thee, that ye made One light together, but has past and leaves The Crown a lonely splendor. May all love, His love, unseen hut felt, o ershadow Thee, The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God's, iove set Thee at his side again 1 THE COMING OF ARTHUR. Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was fairest of all flesh on earth, Guinevere, and in her his one delight. For many a petty king ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle,...