Alfred Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105.Alfred Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105.
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To-night ungather`d let us leave
This laurel, let this holly stand:
We live within the stranger`s land,
And strangely falls our Christmas-eve.
Our father`s dust is left alone
And silent under other snows:
There in due time the woodbine blows,
The violet comes, but we are gone.
No more shall wayward grief abuse
The genial hour with mask and mime;
For change of place, like growth of time,
Has broke the bond of dying use.
Let cares that petty shadows cast,
By which our lives are chiefly proved,
A little spare the night I loved,
And hold it solemn to the past.
But let no footstep beat the floor,
Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm;
For who would keep an ancient form
Thro` which the spirit breathes no more?
Be neither song, nor game, nor feast;
Nor harp be touch`d, nor flute be blown;
No dance, no motion, save alone
What lightens in the lucid east
Of rising worlds by yonder wood.
Long sleeps the summer in the seed;
Run out your measured arcs, and lead
The closing cycle rich in good.
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