The Silent Crowd
(February 2nd, 1901.)
FOR a pageant do you wait?
Quiet crowd, mourning crowd.
For a solemn Hearse of State,
With a velvet pall and plumes,
Sable splendour of the tombs,
For the Queen,
Victoria! Victoria!
See! The carriage of a gun,
And a Coffin set thereon,
Comes the Queen!
Ave Regina Gloria!
Solemn silence for the Queen.
'Neath this Flag a sailor dies,
On the wave;
'Neath this Flag a soldier lies,
For his grave.
And the Queen of both was she,
As she willed, so let it be;
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