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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Warrior of god, man's friend, and tyrant's foe
Last Line: This earth has never borne a nobler man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)
First Line: Warrior of god, man's friend, and tyrant's foe
Last Line: This earth has never borne a nobler man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)
(IN THE GORDON BOY'S NATIONAL MEMORIAL
HOME NEAR WORKING)
WARRIOR of God, man's friend, and tyrant's foe,
Now somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan,
Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know
This earth has never borne a nobler man.
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