In Memoriam (Tennyson)/Canto 41

by Alfred Tennyson

xli.

I vex my heart with fancies dim:

⁠He still outstript me in the race;
⁠It was but unity of place
That made me dream I rank'd with him.

And so may Place retain us still,
⁠And he the much-beloved again,
⁠A lord of large experience, train
To riper growth the mind and will:

And what delights can equal those
⁠That stir the spirit's inner deeps,
⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps
A truth from one that loves and knows?