Tennyson

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    Ring out a slowly dying cause,
    And ancient forms of party strife;
    Ring in the nobler modes of life,
    With sweeter manners, purer laws.
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Sir Richard cried in his English pride,
    ‘We have fought such a fight for a day and a night
    As may never be fought again!
    We have won great glory, my men!
    And a day less or more
    At sea or ashore,
    We die—does it matter when?
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Ah God! that it were possible
    For one short hour to see
    The souls we loved, that they might tell us
    What and where they be. . . .
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)