William Morris Hughes

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    Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
    —William Morris Hughes (1864–1952)

    I know a little garden-close
    Set thick with lily and red rose,
    Where I would wander if I might
    From dewy dawn to dewy night,
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    Stilled legendary depth:
    It was as deep as England: it held
    Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
    That past nightfall I dared not cast
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)