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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My purpose holds
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My purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles
And see the great Achilles.

Source: Ulysses, 59
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.


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