XXIV

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

But look, the morning grows apace, and lights the old church-tower,

And lights the clock! the hand points five—O me—it strikes the hour—

I bide no more, I meet my fate, whatever ills betide!

Arise, my own true sister, come forth! the world is wide.

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