Ulysses

We are not now that strength

which in the old days,

moved earth and heaven.


That which we are, we are.


One equal-temper of heroic hearts,

made weak by time and fate,

but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find,

and not to yield.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Ulysses" first appeared in Morte D'Arthur, and Other Idyls.