Who is alfred tennyson?

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    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “gird the windy grove,
    And flood the haunts of hern and crake;”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)