“O eyes long laid in happy sleep!
O happy sleep, that lightly fled!
O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep!
O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson , The Day-Dream

The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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