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POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS.
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Poems by Alfred Tennyson.

"Caught the sparkles, and in circles,
Purple gauzes, golden hazes, liquid mazes,
Flung the torrent rainbow round."
The Vision of Sin (1842).


"Before the little ducts began
To feed thy bones with lime, and ran
Their course, till thou wert also man."
The Two Voices.


"Contemplate all this work of Time,
The giant labouring in his youth;
Nor dream of human love and truth
As dying Nature's earth and lime."
In Memoriam, cxvii. 1.


"Old Memphis hath gone down,
The Pharaohs are no more."
A Fragment (1830).


"Which did accomplish their desire,
Bore and forbore, and did not tire,
Like Stephen, an unquenched fire."
The Two Voices.