Quote of the day
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Charles Tomlinson

Born: January 8, 1927
Died: August 22, 2015 (aged 88)
Bio: Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE was a British poet, translator, academic and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Known for:
- The vineyard above the sea
- Airborn Hijos Del Aire
- Cracks in the Universe (Oxford Poets
- Amusements in Chess (1845)