THE POETICAL WORKS OF

ALFRED TENNYSON

POET LAUREATE

VOL. VII. IN MEMORIAM

LONDON

C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1879

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Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
Thou madest Life in man and brute

Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:

Thou madest man, he knows not why,

He thinks he was not made to die;

And thou hast made him: thou art just.