IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON
by: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
- IGHTINGALES warbled without,
- Within was weeping for thee:
- Shadows of three dead men
- Walk'd in the walks with me:
- Shadows of three dead men, and thou wast one of the three.
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- Nightingales sang in the woods:
- The Master was far away:
- Nightingales warbled and sang
- Of a passion that lasts but a day;
- Still in the house in his coffin the Prince of courtesy lay.
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- Two dead men have I known
- In courtesy like to thee:
- Two dead men have I loved
- With a love that ever will be:
- Three dead men have I loved, and thou art last of the three.
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