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Title: A Farewell Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson [More Titles by Tennyson] This poem was dedicated to the brook at Somersby described in the 'Ode to Memory' and referred to so often in 'In Memoriam'. Possibly it may have been written in 1837 when the Tennysons left Somersby. 'Cf. In Memoriam', sect. ci. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, But here will sigh thine alder tree, A thousand suns [1] will stream on thee, [Footnote 1: 1842. A hundred suns.] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |