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" The Two Voices " by Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson was a great poet who had three main qualities which are seldom found together: aboundance, variety, and complete competence. He was praised for his genius by many critics as Stephen Gwynn in a Spectator article or Thomas Stearns Eliot. We can see this with the three first stanzas of his poem and the way he uses rhymes and meter.

A still small voice spake unto me,

“Thou art so full of misery,

Were it not better not to be?”

Then to the still small voice I said;

“Let me not cast in endless shade

What is so wonderfully made.”

To which the voice did urge reply;

“To-day I saw the dragon-fly

Come from the wells where he did lie.