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TO LORD TENNYSON
Nestor of Poesy, whose utterance sage
Has charmed so long our time, example bright
In the hard war of Truth, a steadfast light
To guide our search in this self-darkened age!
Thou in a more heroic hour didst wage
With men of mighty mould victorious fight
Two generations back, and still of right
Reign'st in the third, and none may lift thy gage;
Has charmed so long our time, example bright
In the hard war of Truth, a steadfast light
To guide our search in this self-darkened age!
Thou in a more heroic hour didst wage
With men of mighty mould victorious fight
Two generations back, and still of right
Reign'st in the third, and none may lift thy gage;
Nor yet in this thy lovely Pylian realm
And hospitable home, wilt wholly rest,
Shaping what shall not die, beside the shore,
Till God shall bid thee sail and bend the helm
Beyond the Ocean and the misty West,
Whither thine own Antilochus went before.
And hospitable home, wilt wholly rest,
Shaping what shall not die, beside the shore,
Till God shall bid thee sail and bend the helm
Beyond the Ocean and the misty West,
Whither thine own Antilochus went before.
Freshwater:
April, 1891.
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