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 The Sovereign Power unshaken stands, like truth o'er passing dreams, And, lit with glory from on high, above the shadow gleams,—

Gleams as th' eternal starlight gleams over earth's cloudy floor,— Crowns as the steadfast rainbow crowns the cataract's varying roar.

Therefore our hundred million souls join heart, and mind, and voice, Therefore, all strife and discord hushed, one triumph we rejoice:

And through the Empire's earth-wide bounds, joy's emblems we display, The King and Queen of all our realms are throned and crowned to-day. F. C. Kolbe.