I

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Fleet

You, you, if you shall fail to understand

What England is, and what her all-in-all,

On you will come the curse of all the land,

Should this old England fall

Which Nelson left so great.

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