“Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.”

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears

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Tears, Idle Tears (1850)

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