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But What Am I? An Infant Crying In The Night: An Infant Crying For The Light, And With No Language But A Cry.
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But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
-- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 5
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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Daisy, Stanza 24...
Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 1...
And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xv, Stanza 5...
O last regret, regret can die! -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lxxviii, Stanza 5
Who battled for the True, the Just. -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lvi, Stanza 5
I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xxi, Stanza 6...
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in!
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, cv, Stanza 5...
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lie
The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain....
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flow
Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone....