V

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New Year's Eve

And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea,

And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave,

But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.

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