“You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Lady Clara Vere de Vere

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Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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