XIV

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

Why—rather than that hand in mine, tho' every pulse would freeze,

I'd sooner fold an icy corpse dead of some foul disease:

Wed him? I will not wed him, let them spurn me from the doors,

And I will wander till I die about the barren moors.

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