<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523164" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Bohun Martin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keeping his word, the promised Roman kept<br>Enough of worded breath to live till now.<br>Our Regulus was free of plighted vow<br>Or tacit debt: skies fell, seas leapt, storms swept;<br>Death yawned: with a mere step he might have stept<br>To life. But the House-master would know how<br>To do the master's honours; and did know,<br>And did them to the hour of rest, and slept<br>The last of all his house. Oh, thou heart's-core<br>Of Truth, how will the nations sentence thee?<br>Hark! as loud Europe cries 'Could man do more?'<br>Great England lifts her head from her distress,<br>And answers 'But could Englishman do less?'<br>Ah England! goddess of the years to be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sydney+Thompson+Dobell">Sydney Thompson Dobell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523164" data-title="John Bohun Martin de Sydney Thompson Dobell" data-description="Keeping his word, the promised Roman kept Enough of worded breath to live till now. Our Regulus was free of plighted vow Or tacit debt: skies fell, seas leapt, storms swept; Death yawned: with a mere step he might have stept To life. But the House..."></div> </div> </div>

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