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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Biography
Author Profession:
Poet
Nationality:
English
Born:
August 6
, 1809
Died:
October 6
, 1892
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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