XVI

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

And she that had haunted his pathway still,

Had often truckled and cower'd

When he rose in his wrath, and had yielded her will

To the master, as overpower'd,

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