Thomas Campbell Quotes
Tomorrow let us do or die!
Campbell, Thomas. Gertrude of Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian Tale, and Other Poems, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, p. 69.
He was announcing the fall of France, and the start of the Battle of Britain. And that was their finest hour.
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Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote "The Pleasures of Hope", a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs—"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in 1801, "The Battle of the Baltic".