XVI

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

Begin to warble yonder in the budding orchard trees!

The lark has past from earth to Heaven upon the morning breeze!

How gladly, were I one of those, how early would I wake!

And yet the sorrow that I bear is sorrow for his sake.

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