Why do you prate to me
Of deeds unjust and just,
Moved by a story of good
Or a monstrous tale of crimes —
Me that can have no loves
But star-eyed queens long dust,
Me that can mourn no griefs
But the tears in poets’ rhymes?
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A Question. · Alfred Browning Stanley Tennyson · Poetry Cove