Sir Henry Newbolt

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    We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
    Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

    ‘Ye have robbed,’ said he, ‘ye have slaughtered and made an end,
    Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
    What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend?’
    ‘Blood for our blood,’ they said.
    —Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938)