II

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

And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise,

And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow,

And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.

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