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Sestet - Sent To A Friend With A Volume Of Tennyson

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Wouldst know the clash of knightly steel on steel?     Or list the throstle singing loud and clear?     Or walk at twilight by some haunted mere     In Surrey; or in throbbing London feel     Life's pulse at highest--hark, the minster's peal! . . .     Turn but the page, that various world is here!

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