VII

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

Wild words wander here and there;

God's great gift of speech abused

Makes thy memory confused—

But let them rave.

The balmcricket carols clear

In the green that folds thy grave—

Let them rave.

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