The Poetry Corner

Circumstance

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas; Two strangers meeting at a festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall: Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease; Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower, Washd with still rains and daisy-blossomed; Two children in one hamlet born and bred: So runs the round of life from hour to hour.