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Poem of the Day: ‘Tears, Idle Tears’

The world will make us cry, if we let it, for it is filled with constant reminders that the past is lost and will not come again.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detail of photograph by Bain News Service.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detail of photograph by Bain News Service. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

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