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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones
Last Line: Toward no earthly pole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


NOT here! the white North has thy bones; and thou,
Heroic sailor-soul,
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
Toward no earthly pole.







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