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• Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel?
  Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?...
• How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ulysse...
• O love! O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Fatima, Stanza 3...
• But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lie
  The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain....
• Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with migh
  Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight....
• Oh good gray head which all men knew!
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 4...
• Not once or twice in our rough-island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 8...
• Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Poe...
• O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or rive
  Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever....