Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

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Portrait of Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson,  In Memoriam — Canto XVI. (1850)

“ Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
Or doth she only seem to take
The touch of change in calm or storm;
But knows no more of transient form
In her deep self, than some dead lake
That holds the shadow of a lark
Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
”
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