Robert Clive

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    Over the stark plain
    The stilted mill-chimneys once again spread
    Their sackcloth and ashes a flowing mane
    Of repentance for the false day that’s fled.
    —William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)

    It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
    —Robert Clive (1725–1774)