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- <h1>"Ulysses"</h1>
- <h2>by Alfred Lord Tennyson</h2>
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- It little profits that an idle king,<br>
- By this still hearth, among these barren crags,<br>
- Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole<br>
- Unequal laws unto a savage race,<br>
- That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.<br>
- I cannot rest from travel; I will drink<br>
- Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy'd<br>
- Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those<br>
- That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when<br>
- Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades<br>
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- Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;<br>
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- For always roaming with a hungry heart<br>
- Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men<br>
- And manners, climates, councils, governments,<br>
- Myself not least, but honor'd of them all,--<br>
- And drunk delight of battle with my peers,<br>
- Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.<br>
- I am a part of all that I have met;<br>
- Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'<br>
- Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades<br>
- For ever and for ever when I move.<br>
- How dull it is to pause, to make an end,<br>
- To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!<br>
- As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life<br>
- Were all too little, and of one to me<br>
- Little remains; but every hour is saved<br>
- From that eternal silence, something more,<br>
- A bringer of new things; and vile it were<br>
- For some three suns to store and hoard myself,<br>
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- And this gray spirit yearning in desire<br>
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- To follow knowledge like a sinking star,<br>
- Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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- This is my son, mine own Telemachus,<br>
- to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,--<br>
- Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill<br>
- This labor, by slow prudence to make mild<br>
- A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees<br>
- Subdue them to the useful and the good.<br>
- Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere<br>
- Of common duties, decent not to fail<br>
- In offices of tenderness, and pay<br>
- Meet adoration to my household gods,<br>
- When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
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- There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;<br>
- There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,<br>
- Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,--<br>
- That ever with a frolic welcome took<br>
- The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed<br>
- Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old;<br>
- Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.<br>
- Death closes all; but something ere the end,<br>
- Some work of noble note, may yet be done,<br>
- Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.<br>
- The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;<br>
- The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep<br>
- Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.<br>
- 'T is not too late to seek a newer world.<br>
- Push off, and sitting well in order smite<br>
- The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds<br>
- To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths<br>
- Of all the western stars, until I die.<br>
- It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;<br>
- It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,<br>
- And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.<br>
- Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'<br>
- We are not now that strength which in old days<br>
- Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--<br>
- One equal temper of heroic hearts,<br>
- Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will<br>
- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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