May make my heart as a milestone, set my face as a flint, cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.
Alfred Lord TennysonAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: August 6, 1809
- Died: October 6, 1892
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