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First Line: Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges
Last Line: And teach us nothing, feeding not the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Cambridge University


THEREFORE your Halls, your ancient Colleges,
Your portals statued with old kings and queens,
Your gardens, myriad-volumed libraries,
Wax-lighted chapels, and rich carven screens,
Your doctors and your proctors, and your deans
Shall not avail you, when the Daybeam sports
New-risen o'er awaken'd Albion -- No!
Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow
Melodious thunders thro' your vacant courts
At morn and eve -- because your manner sorts
Not with this age wherefrom ye stand apart --
Because the lips of little children preach
Against you, you that do profess to teach
And teach us nothing, feeding not the heart.







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