English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
633. Viviens Song
‘I
Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers:
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit,
That rotting inward slowly moulders all.
But shall it? answer, darling, answer, no.
And trust me not at all or all in all’.