XI

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

And he sung not alone of an old sun set,

But a sun coming up in his youth!

Great and noble—O yes—but yet—

For man is a lover of Truth,

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