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Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson on life and death

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Tithonus”, st. 1 (1860)

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