“Lead out the pageant: sad and slow,
As fits an universal woe,
Let the long, long procession go,
And let the sorrowing crowd about it grow,
And let the mournful martial music blow;
The last great Englishman is low.”

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. III
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)

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