Blow Bugle Blow by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Published: Jan. 22, 2008, 11:35 a.m.

b"Tennyson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nBlow, Bugle, Blow \\nby Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 \\u2013 1892) \\n\\nThe splendour falls on castle walls \\n And snowy summits old in story:\\n The long light shakes across the lakes,\\n And the wild cataract leaps in glory.\\nBlow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,\\nBlow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.\\n\\n O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, \\n And thinner, clearer, farther going!\\n O sweet and far from cliff and scar\\n The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! \\nBlow, let us hear the purple glens replying:\\nBlow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.\\n\\n O love, they die in yon rich sky,\\n They faint on hill or field or river:\\n Our echoes roll from soul to soul,\\n And grow for ever and for ever.\\nBlow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,\\nAnd answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.\\n\\nYou can find more readings of Tennyson's work at:\\n\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.wordpress.com/category/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson/"