XV

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

And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come—

To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast—

And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.

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