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 SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE

Far Kentish hop-fields round him seem'd,

Like dreams, to come and go; Bright leagues of cherry-blossom gleam'd,

One sheet of living snow; The smoke above his father's door

In grey soft cddyings hung: Must he then watch it rise no more,

Doom'd by himself, so young ^

Yes, honour calls' with strength like steel

He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel;

An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink,

With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink,

To his red grave he went.

Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed;

Vain, those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed,

The strong heart of hei sons. So, Jet his name through Europe ring

A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,

Because his soul was great.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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