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" Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing... "
Formative Types in English Poetry: The Earl Lectures of 1917 - Page 246
by George Herbert Palmer - 1918 - 310 pages
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1878 - 1002 pages
...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 69

1864 - 998 pages
...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It...
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In Memoriam, Issue 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her...
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The English Review, Volumes 13-14

1850 - 1052 pages
...secret from the latest moon ?' — " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her...
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The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature, Volume 6

1850 - 550 pages
...Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing: Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her...
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The Princess: A Medley

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 51

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...of regular education, they bear witness to an inborn faculty for song. She could say, with Tennyson, I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. She was never at school, and the only things in which she was ever regularly trained...
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The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Volume 1

Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pages
...with them. The same law-rules both, and clearly manifests itself as an instinct. Man, too, says — " I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing." The neglect of this simple and obvious truth is apparent in much that has been ingeniously...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc ..., Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...Her secret from the latest moon ? " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust; I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. And one is glad ; her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged : And one is sad...
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