Captain Thomas

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“So universal and widely related is any transcendent moral greatness, and so nearly identical with greatness everywhere and in every age,—as a pyramid contracts the nearer you approach its apex,—that, when I look over my commonplace-book of poetry, I find that the best of it is oftenest applicable, in part or wholly, to the case of Captain Brown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“here I ame in Kent and Christendome
Emong the muses where I rede and ryme;”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)