IV

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

Most delicately hour by hour

He canvassed human mysteries,

And trod on silk, as if the winds

Blew his own praises in his eyes,

And stood aloof from other minds

In impotence of fancied power.

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