Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
Alfred Lord TennysonThis truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
Alfred Lord TennysonThose who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
Alfred Lord Tennyson