Select poems of Alfred lord Tennyson . And when my marriage morn may fall,She, Dryad-like, shall wear Alternate leaf and acorn-ballIn wreath about her hair. And I will work in prose and rhyme,And praise thee more in both Than bard has honord beech or lime,Or that Thessalian growth. 94 UL YSSES. In which the swarthy ringdove sat,And mystic sentence spoke ; And more than England honors that,Thy famous brother-oak, Wherein the younger Charles abodeTill all the paths were dim, And far below the Roundhead rode,And hummd a surly ULYSSES. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hear
Select poems of Alfred lord Tennyson . And when my marriage morn may fall,She, Dryad-like, shall wear Alternate leaf and acorn-ballIn wreath about her hair. And I will work in prose and rhyme,And praise thee more in both Than bard has honord beech or lime,Or that Thessalian growth. 94 UL YSSES. In which the swarthy ringdove sat,And mystic sentence spoke ; And more than England honors that,Thy famous brother-oak, Wherein the younger Charles abodeTill all the paths were dim, And far below the Roundhead rode,And hummd a surly ULYSSES. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags. Matchd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyd Greatly, have sufferd greatly, both with those UL YSSES. 95 That loved me, and alone ; on shore, and when Thro scudding drifts the rainy Hyades lo Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known — cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments. Myself not least, but honord of them all — And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro Gleams that untravelld world, whose margin fades 20 Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end. To rust unburnishd, not to shine in use ! As tho to
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