“When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Source: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 230-231
“Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.”
Speech in the House of Commons, June 4, 1940; passage praising the airmen of the Royal Air Force and their efforts during the evacuation of Dunkirk. This is a close paraphrase of Tennyson: <br class="br">When every morning brought a noble chance,<br>And every chance brought out a noble knight. <br class="br">Alfred Tennyson, "Morte d'Arthur" http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/mort.htm, stanza 23 (1842), and the expanded "The Passing of Arthur", stanza 36 in Idylls of the King (1856–1885) <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)
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