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Cover to 1905 print edition of Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women"
12020-09-09T11:59:37-04:00Enter the metaphor.4No memory labours longer from the deep...plain2021-01-21T17:47:06-05:002020-09-08T12:45I know this, too: its first use as metaphor came in June 1832, when Tennyson wrote
No memory labours longer from the deep Gold-mines of thought to lift the hidden ore That glimpses, moving up, than I from sleep To gather and tell o'er