Poem by George Meredith

Gordon of Khartoum

Of men he would have raised to light he fell:
In soul he conquered with those nerveless hands.
His country's pride and her abasement knell
The Man of England circled by the sands. 

1. Modern Love. Sonnet 24. The Misery is Greater, as I Live!
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