Pro Patria Et Regina

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138

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213 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Death. GRIEF and the ache of things which pass and fade, The stately pomp, the pall, the open grave, These and the solemn thoughts which cannot save Our eyes from tears or leave us less afraid Of that dread mystery that God has made: ? How many thousand thousand men, who wave Speechless farewells with hearts forlornly brave, Know well the mockery of Death's parade ? This cannot help us to transgress the bounds Or give us wings to overpass the steep Ramparts of Heaven which God's angels keep: Wide is " the great gulf fixed ": for us, the mounds Of fresh-burned earth: above, sweet peace surrounds The painless patience of eternal sleep. W. L. Courtney. A Distant Cousin. (To Miss, of New York, in return for some family papers of the seventeenth century.) Fair cousin, yet unknown, ?unseen, ? Across the waves that rage between, Brave memories of what has been Your greetings bring, To where our Cheshire fields are green With flush of spring. And though the years have withered fast, A welcome Ruth you come at last, Your gracious gleaning of the past To garner in; Asunder far our fates are cast, But yet akin. Our fathers loved the people's side; For common weal they lived and died, The frown of tyranny defied And spurned disgrace; To you and me a loftier pride Than length of race. And as our English freedom grew, A widening stream, from old to new, They carried high the Buff and Blue Through praise and blame; Had you been there, fair cousin, you Had done the same. Your semblance then in tints undimmed? Reynolds or Romney would have limned, In white simplicity betrimmed (So decked the most), And O what bumpers would have brimmed With you the toast ! Enough?those suns have set; The years, alas, are wit...

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