Nelson & His World

Discussion on the life and times of Admiral Lord Nelson
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 Post subject: Well named
PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:44 pm 
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Just browsing my poetry shelves today, I took down Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome', untouched by my hand these thirty years, and reading again 'How Horatius Kept the Bridge', I was struck by how fitting Nelson's Christian name was: the words might have been spoken by Nelson himself:

'Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods?'


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