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Alfred Domett was an English colonial statesman and poet. He was New Zealand's fourth Premier.

✵ 20. May 1811 – 2. November 1887
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Alfred Domett Quotes

“It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might,
And now was queen of land and sea.
No sound was heard of clashing wars,
Peace brooded o’er the hushed domain;
Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
Held undisturbed their ancient reign
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.”

Alfred Domett

Christmas Hymn (1833), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

War , Peace , Sea , Night

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