“"He does not love me for my birth
Nor for my lands so broad and fair;
He loves me for my own true worth,
And that is well," said Lady Clare.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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