II

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Palace of Art

A huge crag-platform, smooth as burnished brass,

⁠I chose, whose rangèd ramparts bright

From great broad meadowbases of deep grass

⁠Suddenly scaled the light.

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