XIV

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

For since he would sit on a Prophet's seat,

As a lord of the Human soul,

We needs must scan him from head to feet

Were it but for a wart or a mole?'

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