III

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

I made a feast; I bad him come:

I won his love, I brought him home.

      The wind is roaring in turret an' tree.

And after supper, on a bed,

Upon my lap he laid his head:

      O the Earl was fair to see!

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