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For This Is England's Greatest Son, He That Gain'd A Hundred Fights, And Never Lost An English Gun.
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For this is England's greatest son,
He that gain'd a hundred fights,
And never lost an English gun.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
-- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 6
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Not once or twice in our rough-island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
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