Tiresias, and Other Poems/Epitaph on General Gordon

4212108Tiresias, and Other Poems — Epitaph on General GordonAlfred Tennyson

EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON.

For a Cenotaph.

Warrior of God, man's friend, not laid below,
But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan,
Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know
This earth has borne no simpler, nobler man.