LXXI

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

Shut up as in a crumbling tomb, girt round

With blackness as a solid wall,

Far off she seemed to hear the dully sound

Of human footsteps fall.

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