by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)

So dark a mind within me dwells
Language: English 
So dark a mind within me dwells,
  And I make myself such evil cheer,
That if I be dear to some one else,
  Then some one else may have much to fear;
But if I be dear to some one else,
  Then I should be to myself more dear.
Shall I not take care of all that I think,
Yea ev'n of wretched meat and drink,
If I be dear,
If I be dear to some one else.

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Confirmed with Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. A New Edition, London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1859.


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