Death & Dying
Sir John Franklin: On the Cenotaph in Westminster Abbey
From Ballads and Other Poems (1880)
Death & Dying
NOT here! the white North has thj bones; and thou,
Heroic sailor-soul,
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
Toward no earthly pole.
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Sir John Franklin: On the Cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/380/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Sir John Franklin: On the Cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/380/.
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