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On 23rd October 2009, the Faculty of English along withTrinity College, Cambridge, celebrated the bicentennial birthday of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Throughout the day, various members of the Faculty of English read a good portion of his poetic output. These readings were performed in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio and also broadcast live over the Internet. The fourth session of the day is devoted to In Memoriam A.H.H., Tennyson's long elegy for his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. Tennyson and Hallam met as undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became close friends; Hallam was a...
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strong son of god immortal love whom we that have not seen thy face by faith and faith alone embrace
and brute, thou made'st death, and lo thy foot is on the skull which thou hast made.
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- 127 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 143 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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in memoriam a h h strong son of god immortal love whom we that have not seen thy face by faith and faith alone embrace believing where we cannot prove thine are these orbs of light and shade thou made us life in man and brute, thou made'st death, and lo thy foot is on the skull which thou hast made.
Thou will not leave us in the dust, thou made'st man he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die, and thou hast made him, thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood thou. Our wills are ours, we know not how, Our wills are ours to make them thine.
Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith, we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see, And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness, let it grow.
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