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TRINITAS ANGLICA.
THREE names o'er all do glorify our land;First his, whilere in England's mightiest day
Our stage illustrious over all for aye
Who made to many an undiscovered strand:
Next his, love, tears and laughter hand in hand
Unpeered to lead; and last, not least, to say,
His, on the canvas who in bright array
Set the whole glorious scheme by Nature planned.
Hereafterward, if any question make
Of thee what men have,—most of all the men
Writ down for great upon the roll of fame,—
For England's glory wrought with brush and pen,
These three for thine exemplars shalt thou take
And Shakspeare, Dickens, Turner shalt thou name.
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