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TENNYSONIANA.

same collection, the following lines are written in pencil on the fly-leaf:

"Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges,Your portals statued with old kings and queens,Your bridges and your busted libraries,War-lighted chapels and rich carved screens,Your doctors and your proctors and your deans,Shall not avail you when the day-beam sportsNew-risen o'er awaken'd Albion—no,Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blowMelodious thunders through your vacant courtsAt morn and even; for your manner sortsNot with this age, nor with the thoughts that . . .[1]Because the lips of little children preachAgainst you—ye that did profess to teachAnd have taught nothing, feeding not the soul."
  1. ↑ This word is illegible.
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