Quotes from Alfred Tennyson

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Paladin speaking to guest star Charles Bronson, He that shuts love out, shall in turn be shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, howling in the darkness. Paladin attributes the quote to Alfred Tennyson.

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved.

All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.