Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire on 6 August 1809.
He played in the babbling brooks on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and his poem enticing Maud into the garden was said to be set in Harrington Hall, which was within walking distance of Somersby.
“Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, Night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the roses blown.”
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