I

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Character

With a half-glance upon the sky

At night he said, "The wanderings

Of this most intricate universe

Teach me the nothingness of things."

Yet could not all creation pierce

Beyond the bottom of his eye.

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