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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes: And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
         

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.


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