Alfred Tennyson: Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissin

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with bu — Alfred Tennyson

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

Alfred Tennyson

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