I wept, `Tho' I should die, I know
That all about the thorn will blow
In tufts of rosy-tinted snow.'
Source: The Two Voices, 20
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.