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Sir Henry Newbolt - Minora SideraSir Henry Newbolt - Minora Sidera
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(The Dictionary Of National Biography) Sitting at times over a hearth that burns   With dull domestic glow, My thought, leaving the book, gratefully turns   To you who planned it so. Not of the great only you deigned to tell---   The stars by which we steer--- But lights out of the night that flashed, and fell   Tonight again, are here. Such as were those, dogs of an elder day,   Who sacked the golden ports, And those later who dared grapple their prey   Beneath the harbour forts: Some with flag at the fore, sweeping the world   To find an equal fight, And some who joined war to their trade, and hurled   Ships of the line in flight. Whether their fame centuries long should ring   They cared not over-much, But cared greatly to serve God and the king,   And keep the Nelson touch; And fought to build Britain above the tide   Of wars and windy fate; And passed content, leaving to us the pride   Of lives obscurely great.
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