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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 2

Category: Arts
Duration: 00:06:03
Publish Date: 2025-02-07 17:08:13
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Today’s poem is the final stanza of Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” in which the hero of the Trojan war persuades his aging compatriots to wring out the last of their energies in a quest for the ends of the earth–“to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Happy reading.



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