"I sometimes hold it half a sin To……" — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the… - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more."

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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