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IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 63 by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: YET PITY FOR A HORSE O'ER DRIVEN
Last Line: A HIGHER HEIGHT, A DEEPER DEEP.
Subject(s): HALLAM, ARTHUR HENRY (1811-1833); DEATH; MOURNING; FRIENDSHIP;
Yet pity for a horse o'er-driven,
And love in which my hound has part,
Can hang no weight upon my heart
In its assumptions up to heaven;

And I am so much more than these,
As thou, perchance, art more than I,
And yet I spare them sympathy,
And I would set their pains at ease.

So mayst thou watch me where I weep,
As, unto vaster motions bound,
The circuits of thine orbit round
A higher height, a deeper deep.



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