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For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.
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Attain the unattainable.
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The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
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