Alfred, Lord Tennyson on New Year
1809–1892 England
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Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range.
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
The mighty hopes that make us men.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
The eternal landscape of the past.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
If this life of ours be a good glad thing, why should we make us merry Because a year of it is gone? but Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come Whispering ‘It will be happier
I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?