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James and Mary Ford, eds.  Every Day in the Year.  1902.
 
January 26
Epitaph on General Gordon
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
 
(In the Gordon Boys’ Memorial Home, near Woking)

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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