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Beyond the book his teaching sped,He left on whom he taught the traceOf kinship with the deathless dead,And faith in all the Island Race.He passed his life a tangle seemed,His age from fame and power was far;But his heart was high to the end, and dreamedOf the sound and splendour of England's war.
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