“Death closes all: but something ere the end, / Some work of noble note, may yet be done…” Actress Helen Mirren and Stephen Colbert share an emotional moment as she reads the last lines of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
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