"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna', Charles Wolfe. "Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred." 'The charge of the Light Brigade', Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." 'The Old Man and the Sea' Ernest Hemingway. "Have you stood by the ocean on a diamond-hard morning, And felt the horizon stir deep in your soul; Watched the wake of a steamer as it cut through blue water, Been gripped by a fever you just can't control?" 'Safe In The Harbour' Eric Bogle.
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