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EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WARRIOR OF GOD, MAN'S FRIEND, AND TYRANT'S FOE
Last Line: THIS EARTH HAS NEVER BORNE A NOBLER MAN.
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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