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MEMORIAL ODE
Nearer it led and nearer
To dreadful death,
While ever to the spirit whispered clearer
A voice that promised something more than breath:
A voice that prophesied
Of victory,
Through mildness and compassion sanctified,—
Of conquest that ennobles and makes free.
America to-day
Binds in her hair
The olive and the undecaying bay:
An adult Nation, gloriously fair,
Who with a mother's pride
Her children gave,
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