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The steadfast will that faces and overpowers fear,

If in the perilous hour of Freedom's mortal fight

He fails to dare his all for God and for the right—

Mother, your love has crippled the soul it strove to shield.

You knew not how to give the life he knows not how to yield.

Amelia Josephine Burr.