IX

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve

I have been wild and wayward, but ye'll forgive me now;

You'll kiss me, my own mother, upon my cheek and brow;

Nay—nay, ye must not weep, nor let your grief be wild,

You should not fret for me, mother, you have another child.

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