LXIII

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

And hollow shades enclosing hearts of flame,

And, with dim fretted foreheads all,

On corpses three-months-old at noon she came

That stood against the wall.

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