Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.”
    —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)

    “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)

    “Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
    But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
    It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)