William Thompson Russell

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    “he might have been a Roosian,
    A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
    Or perhaps Itali-an!
    But in spite of all temptations,
    To belong to other nations,
    He remains an Englishman!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Above the bayonets, mixed and crossed,
    Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost
    Receding through the battle cloud,
    And heard across the tempest loud
    The death cry of a nation lost!”
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    “The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)