II
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Published 01/07/1880
Part of Prefatory Poem to my Brother's Sonnets
Midnight—and joyless June gone by,
And from the deluged park
The cuckoo of a worse July
Is calling thro' the dark:
But thou art silent underground,
And o'er thee streams the rain,
True poet, surely to be found
When Truth is found again.