Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread,
    Set on my soul an everlasting head.
    Then am I ready, like a palmer fit,
    To tread those blest paths which before I writ.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)