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I read
Of that glad year that once had been,
In those fall'n leaves which kept their green,
The noble letters of the dead:
And strangely on the silence broke
The silent-speaking words.

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

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Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.

Acting the law we live by without fear;
And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

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Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
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