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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more."
Locksley HallI remember one that perishd: sweetly did she speak and move: — Locksley Hall
"I remember one that perishd: sweetly did she speak and move: Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was to love."
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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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