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James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.

September 3

On the Death of Oliver Cromwell

By John Dryden (1631–1700)

HIS grandeur he derived from Heaven alone;

For he was great, ere fortune made him so:

And wars, like mists that rise against the sun,

Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.