THE

POETICAL WORKS OF TENNYSON

IN TEN VOLUMES

VOL. I.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF

ALFRED TENNYSON

POET LAUREATE

VOL. I. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

LONDON

C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1879

3 JUL

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Than arms, or power of brain, or birth

Could give the warrior kings of old,

Victoria,-since your Royal grace

To one of less desert allows

This laurel greener from the brows

Of him that utter'd nothing base;