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• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xlviii, Stanza 4...
• The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lv, Stanza 4...
• Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xxxii, Stanza 1...
• Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 1...
• And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xxiii, Stanza 4...
• Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
  -- Alfred Lord Tennyson, (1809-1892) In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4...
• I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow mo
  'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all....
• One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, Conclusion, Stanza 36...
• Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, cxii, Stanza 4...