| Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) | |||||||||||||||||
| A FAREWELL | |||||||||||||||||
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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower--but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. |
Flow down, clod rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver; No more by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet, then a river; Nowhere by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, Forever and forever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. | ||||||||||||||||
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