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SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
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Tennyson.

Will let his coltish nature break
At seasons thro' the gilded pale:
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"Nor ever narrowness or spite,
Or villain fancy fleeting by,
Drew in the expression of an eye
Where God and Nature met in light."
In Memoriam, CXI. 2, 5. 


"I do not therefore love thee less."
In Memoriam, CXXX. 2. 


"The path by which we twain did go,
Which led by tracts that pleased us well,
Thro' four sweet years arose and fell,
From flower to flower, from snow to snow.
"And we with singing cheer'd the way,
And, crown'd with all the season lent,
From April on to April went,
And glad at heart from May to May."
In Memoriam, XXII. 1, 2.