VI

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

The goldeyéd kingcups fine;

The frail bluebell peereth over

Rare broidry of the purple clover—

Let them rave.

Kings have no such couch as thine,

As the green that folds thy grave—

Let them rave.

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