XII

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

There's many worthier than I, would make him happy yet.

If I had lived—I cannot tell—I might have-been his wife;

But all these things have ceased to be, with my desire of life.

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