“Forget thee…
Never—
Till Nature, high and low, and great and small
Forgets herself, and all her loves and hates
Sink again into Chaos.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Foresters

Act I, Scene III
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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