X

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

They lower'd me down the side, and there in the boat I lay

With sad eyes fixt on the lost sea-home, as we glided away,

And I sigh'd, as the low dark hull dipt under the smiling main,

'Had I stay'd with him, I had now—with him—been out of my pain.'

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