Toll for the brave!— The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!
Toll for the brave!— The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
On the Loss of the Royal George.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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