“Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.”

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. IV
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)
Context: Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
O good gray head which all men knew,
O voice from which their omens all men drew,
O iron nerve to true occasion true,
O fallen at length that tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!

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