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First Line: How pure at heart and sound in head
Last Line: And hear the household jar within.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Spiritual Communions;spiritual Companionship
Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The


How pure at heart and sound in head,
With what divine affections bold,
Should be the man whose thought would hold
An hour's communion with the dead.
In vain shalt thou, or any, call
The spirits from their golden day,
Except, like them, thou too canst say,
My spirit is at peace with all.
They haunt the silence of the breast,
Imagination calm and fair,
The memory like a cloudless air,
The conscience as a sea at rest:
But when the heart is full of din,
And doubt beside the portals waits,
They can but listen at the gates,
And hear the household jar within.




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