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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT HERE! THE WHITE NORTH HAS THY BONES
Last Line: TOWARD NO EARTHLY POLE.
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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