“It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, book Ulysses

Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 1-5

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