PoemEpitaph on General Gordon
Author / PoetAlfred Lord Tennyson
TagsFoe, God

WARRIOR of God, man’s friend, and tyrant’s foe
Now somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan,
Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know
This earth has never borne a nobler man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 Aug 1809 - 6 Oct 1892
Region: British, Northern Europe
Period: Romantic

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