Poor playthings of the man that's gone, Surely we would not have them thrown, Like wreckage on a barren strand, The prey of every greedy hand. - Frederick York Powell

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Poor playthings of the man that's gone, Surely we would not have them thrown, Like wreckage on a barren strand, The prey of every greedy hand.

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About Frederick York Powell

Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford University, 1894–1904.

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Alternative Names: F. York Powell
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We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current; but we have it in our power to behave decently, to share the meagre stock of victuals fairly as long as they last, to take the good and evil as it comes, and even to hope, if we choose to do so, for a fair haven.
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