Valkyrie of Mercy• Show poetry

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"... Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."
~ 'Ulysses' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,—
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
~ 'Ulysses' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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"...Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die."
~ 'Ulysses' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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"Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me."
~ 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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My dearest WH. I shall love you forever, muirneach.

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