Tuesday, July 14, 2009

loved and lost


“In Memoriam A. H. H.” [Arthur Henry Hallam], stanza 27,
The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, p. 226 (1899)


I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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