"Soldier of God, man’s friend, not here below, But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan, Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know This earth has borne no simpler, nobler man."

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Epitaph on General Gordon" — Soldier of God, man’s friend, and tyrant’s foe, Now somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan, Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know This earth has never borne a nobler man. — In the Gordon Boys’ National Memorial Home, near Woking