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Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892

Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson on poetry

“To Virgil”, st. 3 (1882)

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