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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Alfred Tennyson Tennyson. (1809–1892) (continued)
 
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    Large elements in order brought,
  And tracts of calm from tempest made,
  And world-wide fluctuation swayed,
In vassal tides that followed thought.
          In Memoriam. cxii. Stanza 4.
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          Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
          In Memoriam. Conclusion. Stanza 10.
6820
      One God, one law, one element,
  And one far-off divine event
To which the whole creation moves.
          In Memoriam. Conclusion. Stanza 36.
6821
    Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
          Maud. Part I. ii.
6822
    That jewelled mass of millinery,
That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.
          Maud. Part I. vi. Stanza 6.
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    One still strong man in a blatant land.
          Maud. Part I. x. Stanza 5.
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    Gorgonized me from head to foot,
  With a stony British stare.
          Maud. Part I. xiii. Stanza 2.
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    Come into the garden, Maud,
  For the black bat, night, has flown;
Come into the garden, Maud,
  I am here at the gate alone.
          Maud. Part I. xxii. Stanza 1.
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      Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
          Maud. Part I. xxii. Stanza 9.
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    Ah, Christ, that it were possible
  For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell
              us
  What and where they be.
          Maud. Part II. iv. Stanza 3.
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    In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.
          Idylls of the King: Dedication. Line 629.
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    Large, divine and comfortable words.
          Idylls of the King: The Coming of Arthur. Line 267.
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    Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—
Else, wherefore born?
          Idylls of the King: Gareth and Lynette. Line 117.