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ast she spoke of me;
And turning look’d upon your face,
As near this door you sat apart,
And rose, and, with a silent grace
Approaching, press’d you heart to heart.[21]
Ah, well—but sing the foolish song
I gave you, Alice, on the day[22]
When, arm in arm, we went along,
A pensive pair, and you were gay,
With bridal flowers—that I may seem,
As in the nights of old, to lie
Beside the mill-wheel in the stream,
While those full chestnuts whisper by.[23]

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Poet Laureate of Victorian Britain. Master of musical verse whose works include "In Memoriam" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

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