For other versions of this work, see Circumstance (Tennyson).
CIRCUMSTANCE.
Two children in two neighbour villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchardwall;
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grassgreen beside a gray churchtower,
Washed with still rains and daisyblossomed;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred,
Fill up the round of life from hour to hour.
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchardwall;
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grassgreen beside a gray churchtower,
Washed with still rains and daisyblossomed;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred,
Fill up the round of life from hour to hour.