Alfred Tennyson

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    Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
    Full of sad experience, moving towards the stillness of his rest.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Out flew the web and floated wide;
    The mirror cracked from side to side;
    ‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried
    The Lady of Shalott.
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)