History & Politics
To One Who Ran Down the English
From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)
History & Politics
You make our faults too gross, and thence maintain
Our darker future. May your fears be vain!
At times the small black fly upon the pane
May seem the black ox of the distant plain.
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “To One Who Ran Down the English.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/434/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “To One Who Ran Down the English.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/434/.
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