Thou seëst all things, thou wilt see my grave;

Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn;

I earth in earth forget these empty courts, 75

And thee returning on thy silver wheels.

Alfred Tennyson.

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THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.

‘Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean:

Tears from the depth of some divine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,