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Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
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from Maud
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892)
O let the solid ground
Not fail beneath my feet
Before my life has found
What some have found so sweet!
Then let come what come may,
What matter if I go mad,
I shall have had my day.
Let the sweet heavens endure,
Not close and darken above me
Before I am quite quite sure
That there is one to love me!
Then let come what come may
To a life that has been so sad,
I shall have had my day.
First aired: 1 October 2008
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