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Tennyson's Poems

Move Eastward, Happy Earth...


First published in 1842.


Move eastward, happy earth, and leave

Yon orange sunset waning slow:

From fringes of the faded eve,

O, happy planet, eastward go;

Till over thy dark shoulder glow

Thy silver sister-world, and rise

To glass herself in dewy eyes

That watch me from the glen below.


Ah, bear me with thee, smoothly [1] borne,

Dip forward under starry light,

And move me to my marriage-morn,

And round again to happy night.


[Footnote 1: 1842 to 1853. Lightly.]

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