VII

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

Nay, but I am not claiming your pity: I know you of old—

Small pity for those that have ranged from the narrow warmth of your fold,

Where you bawl'd the dark side of your faith and a God of eternal rage,

Till you flung us back on ourselves, and the human heart, and the Age.

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