These words, borrowed from Sir Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses poem, had been left by the party who located Scott's tent in memory of the expedition team's legacy.

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The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

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Ms. JANE STILLWATER (Embed and Blogger): They're - you know, the cannons to the left of them, as Alfred Lloyd Tennyson said, cannons to the right of them, and somebody had blundered.

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