XII

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

Why should I live? one son had forged on his father and fled,

And if I believed in a God, I would thank him, the other is dead,

And there was a baby-girl, that had never look'd on the light:

Happiest she of us all, for she past from the night to the night.

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