damian entwistle · @ukdamo
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Tony Pennino · @beatnikprof
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“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

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Kinetograph · @Kinetograph
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Gustave Doré illustration of "Idylls of the King" (1868) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ,LordTennyson

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5W1H · @5W1H
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1854 narrative poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ tells of the heroic charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Published on 9 December 1854 in ‘The Examiner’ — part of the second verse —
“… Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”

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