Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 27
“Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.”
" The Gardener's Daughter http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/englishidyls/gardenersdaughter.html", l. 139-140 (1842)
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She stood, a sight to make an old man young." by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
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