Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
“The way was long, the wind was cold,
The Minstrel was infirm and old;
His withered cheek, and tresses gray,
Seemed to have known a better day.”
Introduction
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
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