Epitaph on General Gordon

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

Warrior of God, man's friend, not laid below,

      But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan,

Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know

      This earth has borne no simpler, nobler man.

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