XVII

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

They love their mates, to whom they sing; or else their songs, that meet

The morning with such music, would never be so sweet!

And tho' these fathers will not hear, the blessed Heavens are just,

And Love is fire, and burns the feet would trample it to dust.

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