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London Types Drum-Major

Who says Drum-Major says a man of mould,

Shaking the meek earth with tremendous tread,

And pacing still, a triumph to behold,

Of his own spine at least two yards ahead!

Attorney, grocer, surgeon, broker, duke— His calling may be anything, who comes Into a room, his presence a rebuke To the dejected, as the pipes and drums Inspired his port!—who mounts his office stairs As though he led great armies to the fight!

His bulk itself's pure genius, and he wears His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright That, though the creature stands but five feet five,

You take him for the tallest He alive.

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, writer, critic and editor in late Victorian England. Though he wrote …

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