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Lord Alfred Tennyson was a 19th-century British poet laureate. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“The old order changeth yielding place to new.”
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“God's finger touched him and he slept.”
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“Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.”
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