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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TENNYSON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poet's Biography
First Line: The larks of song that high o'erhead
Last Line: To this one lark alone in heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
First Line: The larks of song that high o'erhead
Last Line: To this one lark alone in heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
THE larks of song that high o'erhead
Sung joyous in my boyhood's sky,
Save one, are with the silent dead,
Those larks that knew to soar so high.
But still with ever surer flight,
One singer of unfailing trust
Chants at the gates of morn and night
Great songs that lift us from the dust,
And heavenward call tired hearts that grieve,
Beneath the vast horizon given
With larger breadth of morn and eve,
To this one lark alone in heaven.
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