Charles George Gordon.
"Rather be dead than praised," he said, That hero, like a hero dead, In this slack-sinewed age endued With more than antique fortitude! "Rather be dead than praised!" Shall we, Who loved thee, now that Death sets free Thine eager soul, with word and line Profane that empty house of thine? Nay,--let us hold, be mute. Our pain Will not be less that we refrain; And this our silence shall but be A larger monument to thee.
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