IX

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

'Great! for he spoke and the people heard,

And his eloquence caught like a flame

From zone to zone of the world, till his Word

Had won him a noble name.

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