XXV

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

And yet my heart is ill at ease, my eyes are thin with dew,

I seem to see a new-dug grave up yonder by the yew!

If we should never more return, but wander hand in hand

With breaking hearts, without a friend, and in a distant land.

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