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Alfred Tennyson

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Born 1809 in Somersby · Died 1892 in Aldworth

writer, poet · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Notable works: The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, The Princess

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In Memoriam

From Project Gutenberg e-text #70950 (public domain in the USA).

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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