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.