The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

And rose, and, with a silent grace

Approaching, press'd you heart to heart'

And at the last she spoke of

And I was young-too young to wed: | She spoke at large of many things,
'Yet must I love her for your sake;
Go fetch your Alice here,' she said:
Her eyelid quiver'd as she spake.

me;

And turning look'd upon your face,
As near this door you sat apart,
And rose, and, with a silent grace
Approaching, press'd you heart to
heart.

Ah, well-but sing the foolish song
I gave you, Alice, on the day
When, arm in arm, we went along,

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A pensive pair, and you were gay
With bridal flowers-that I may seem,
As in the nights of old, to lie
Beside the mill-wheel in the stream,
While those full chestnuts whisper

by.

And now those vivid hours are gone,

Like mine own life to me thou art, Where Past and Present, wound in one, Do make a garland for the heart; So sing that other song I made,

Half-anger'd with my happy lot, 200 The day, when in the chestnut shade I found the blue forget-me-not.

Love that hath us in the net,
Can he pass, and we forget?
Many suns arise and set;
Many a chance the years beget;
Love the gift is Love the debt.
Even so.

Love is hurt with jar and fret;
Love is made a vague regret;
Eves with idle tears are wet;
Idle habit links us yet.
What is love? for we forget:
Ah, no! no!

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Look thro' mine eyes with thine. True wife,

Round my true heart thine arms entwine;

My other dearer life in life,

Look thro' my very soul with thine! Untouch'd with any shade of years, May those kind eyes for ever dwell!

I look'd athwart the burning drouth The long brock falling thro' the cloven Of that long desert to the south.

ravine

In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning; but in front

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