XXII

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

You will not leave me thus in grief to wander forth forlorn;

We never changed a bitter word, not once since we were born;

Our dying mother join'd our hands; she knew this father well;

She bid its love, like souls in Heaven, and now I fly from Hell,

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