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

But the blind wave cast me ashore, and you saved me, a valueless life.

Not a grain of gratitude mine! You have parted the man from the wife.

I am left alone on the land, she is all alone in the sea;

If a curse meant ought, I would curse you for not having let me be.

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