VIII

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

I saw you sitting in the house, and I no longer here;

With all my strength I pray'd for both, and so I felt resign'd,

And up the valley came a swell of music on the wind.

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