<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529189" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tennyson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name <br>Shall lips of after-ages link to these? <br>His who, beside the wide encircling seas, <br>Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim, <br>For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame, <br>Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What strain was his in that Crimean war? <br>A bugle call in battle; a low breath, <br>Plaintive and sweet, above the fields of death! <br>So year by year the music rolled afar, <br>From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar, <br>Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Others shall have their little space of time, <br>Their proper niche and bust, then fade away <br>Into the darkness, poets of a day; <br>But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme, <br>Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime <br>On earth shall live where saxon speech has sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waft me this verse across the winter sea, <br>Through light and dark, through mist and blinding sleet, <br>O winter winds, and lay it at his feet; <br>Though the poor gift betray my poverty, <br>At his feet lay it: it may chance that he <br>Will find no gift, where reverence is, unmeet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529189" data-title="Tennyson de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="I Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name Shall lips of after-ages link to these? His who, beside the wide encircling seas, Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim, For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame, Whose ..."></div> </div> </div>

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