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TO THE PRINCESS FREDERICA ON HER MARRIAGE by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: O YOU THAT WERE EYES AND LIGHT TO THE KING
Last Line: HE BLESSES THE WIFE.
Subject(s): FREDERICA OF HANOVER, PRINCESS;

O YOU that were eyes and light to the King till he past away
From the darkness of life --
He saw not his daughter -- he blest her: the blind King
sees you to-day,
He blesses the wife.





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