Sir John Franklin

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“Over Sir John’s hill,
The hawk on fire hangs still;
In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his claws
And gallows, up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)