Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone,
Alfred Tennyson
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In the language wherewith Spring
Letters cowslips on the hill. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
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For men may come and men may go,
... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON O Blackbird! sing me something well:
While all the neighbors shoot thee round,
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Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
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A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.
A noise... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
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Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at fi... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure ... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Gone--flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON . . . but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,
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And the shining daffodil dies. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And feet like sunny gems on an English green. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay
Till the end o' the daay
An the last load hoam. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Some full-breasted swan
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Ring, happy bells, across the snow. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove
In firry woodlands making moan. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the ... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke
From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,
And ... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Fancy light from Fancy caught. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w... ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We keep the day. With festal cheer,
With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate'... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON