Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Idylls of the King (1859)

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On one side lay the Ocean, and on one
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.

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For why is all around us here
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would.

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Lady, for indeed
I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

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Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.

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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

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For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

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The fire of Heaven is lord of all things good,
And starve not thou this fire within thy blood,
But follow Vivien through the fiery flood!
The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell!

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In me there dwells
No greatness, save it be some far-off touch
Of greatness to know well I am not great.

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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain;
And sweet is death who puts an end to pain:
I know not which is sweeter, no, not I.

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Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

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I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I find Him not.

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The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months, The months will add themselves and make the years, The years will roll into the centuries, And mine will ever be a name of scorn.

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The king who fights his people fights himself.
And they my knights, who loved me once, the stroke
That strikes them dead is as my death to me.

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