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

He left us weeping in the woods; his boat was on the sand;

How slowly down the rocks he went, how loth to quit the land!

And all my life was darken'd, as I saw the white sail run,

And darken, up that lane of light into the setting sun.

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