A Delightful bit of Pedantry

 ‘Fill the cup, and fill the can:

    Have a rouse before the morn:

Every moment dies a man,

    Every moment one is born.

Thus wrote the poet Tennyson in his poem "The Vision of Sin."

Enter, the pedant:

In this case, Charles Babbage, who wrote the following to the poet:

Source here.

So add this to the tiny thimble of knowledge I have about Tennyson.

And this ranks as one of the most delightful bits of pedantry ever recorded.