Ulysses

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842) — a poem card from Justes Mots

An aged hero refuses the easy chair: to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

It little profits that an idle king,

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,
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Themes: encouragement · new-chapter · graduation