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In Memoriam Thomas Edward Brown

By William Ernest Henley

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(Ob. October 30, 1897)     He looked half-parson and half-skipper: a quaint,     Beautiful blend, with blue eyes good to see,     And old-world whiskers.    You found him cynic, saint,     Salt, humourist, Christian, poet; with a free,     Far-glancing, luminous utterance; and a heart     Large as ST. FRANCIS'S: withal a brain     Stored with experience, letters, fancy, art,     And scored with runes of human joy and pain.     Till six-and-sixty years he used his gift,     His gift unparalleled, of laughter and tears,     And left the world a high-piled, golden drift     Of verse: to grow more golden with the years,     Till the Great Silence fallen upon his ways     Break into song, and he that had Love have Praise.

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About William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) was an English poet, critic, and editor best known for his poem "Invictus" ("I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul"). Written while recovering from tuberculosis of the bone, it has become one of the most quoted poems of courage and resilience.

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