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PATRIOTIC POEMS.
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remains as a warning to all but madmen against want of vigour and swift decisiveness."[1]

No words could more fittingly close a chapter devoted to the consideration of Alfred Tennyson as a Patriotic Poet.

  1. "Life of Edward John Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica," by Hamilton Hume (London, 1867), p. 291.