Epitaph on Caxton

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

Thy prayer was 'Light—more Light—while Time shall last!'

Thou sawest a glory growing on the night,

But not the shadows which that light would cast,

Till shadows vanish in the Light of Light.

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