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Maud

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1855
Pages
Pages 80

A grieving son curses a corrupt peace and falls for the daughter of the family he blames for his father's ruin, then kills her brother in a duel. Grief and guilt drive him mad, until a war gives him a reason to live.

Come into the garden, Maud, / For the black bat, night, has flown,
Maud, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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