— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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THE PRINCESS 29

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892

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ong summers back, a kind of ceremony— J think the year in which our olives fail’d. I would you had her, Prince, with all my heart, 125 With my full heart : but there were widows here, Two widows, Lady Psyche, Lady Blanche ; They fed her theories, in and out of place,

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