. Book of the Royal blue . king our fathers did think;From the death we are shrinking our fathers did shrink;To the life we are clinging our fathers did cling,But it speeds from us all like the bird on the wing. They loved —but the story we cannot unfold;They scorned — but the heart of the haughty is cold;They grieved — but no wail from their slumbers will come;They joyed —but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. They died — ah ! they died — we, things that are now. That walk on the turf that lies over their brow. And make in their dwelling a transient abode. Meet the things that they met on
. Book of the Royal blue . king our fathers did think;From the death we are shrinking our fathers did shrink;To the life we are clinging our fathers did cling,But it speeds from us all like the bird on the wing. They loved —but the story we cannot unfold;They scorned — but the heart of the haughty is cold;They grieved — but no wail from their slumbers will come;They joyed —but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. They died — ah ! they died — we, things that are now. That walk on the turf that lies over their brow. And make in their dwelling a transient abode. Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasures and pain. Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear, and the song and the dirge. Still follow each other like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye; tis the draught of a the blossom of health to the paleness of death;From the gilded salon to the bier and the , why should the spirit of mortal be proud ?. UllK 1 i,\( Pictorial News Co., New LEADING THE ATLANTIC FLEET OUT OF THE VIRGINIA CAPES,DECEMBER 16, 1907 The Greatest Naval Cruise of History The Home-Coming of the Fleet
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