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 Nearer it led and nearer

To dreadful death,

While ever to the spirit whispered clearer

A voice that promised something more than breath:

A voice that prophesied

Of victory,

Through mildness and compassion sanctified,—

Of conquest that ennobles and makes free.

America to-day

Binds in her hair

The olive and the undecaying bay:

An adult Nation, gloriously fair,

Who with a mother's pride

Her children gave,