VI

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

He look'd so grand when he was dead.

      The wind is blowing in turret and tree.

I wrapt his body in the sheet,

And laid him at his mother's feet.

      O the Earl was fair to see!

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