LVI

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

Of fullsphered contemplation. So three years

She throve, but on the fourth she fell,

Like Herod, when the shout was in his ears,

Struck thro' with pangs of hell.

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