Alfred Tennyson,
In Memoriam (Tennyson) — Canto XC.
(1850)
“ Yea, tho' it spake and bared to view A fact within the coming year; And tho' the months, revolving near, Should prove the phantom-warning true, They might not seem thy prophecies, But spiritual presentiments, And such refraction of events As often rises ere they rise. ”
