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by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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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.'