One still strong man in a blatant land.
Alfred Tennyson
I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death,I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
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Remember that sore saying spoken once By Him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is For the rich man to enter into heaven!' Let all rich men remember that hard word.
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Forward, the Light Brigade! Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
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Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
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But we grow old. Ah! When shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
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First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest; That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
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A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.
And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
She with all the charm of woman, She with all the breadth of man.
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
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