LXXV

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

So when four years were wholly finishèd,

She threw her royal robes away.

"Make me a cottage in the vale," she said,

"Where I may mourn and pray.

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