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"Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
Locksley HallComrades, leave me here a little, while as yet tis early morn: — Locksley Hall
"Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet tis early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle horn."
Locksley Hall
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"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his v
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