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Tiresias, and Other Poems/Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe

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4212106Tiresias, and Other Poems — Epitaph on Lord Stratford de RedcliffeAlfred Tennyson

EPITAPH ON LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.

In Westminster Abbey.

Thou third great Canning, stand among our bestAnd noblest, now thy long day's work hath ceased,Here silent in our Minster of the WestWho wert the voice of England in the East.