VI

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

What father, this or mine, was he, who, on that summer day

When I had fall'n from off the crag we clamber'd up in play,

Found, fear'd me dead, and groan'd, and took and kiss'd me, and again

He kiss'd me; and I loved him then; he was my father then.

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