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OR a pageant do you wait? Quiet crowd, mourning crowd. For a solemn Hearse of State, With a velvet pall and plumes, Sable splendour of the tombs, For the Queen, Victoria! Victoria! See! The carriage of a gun, And a Coffin set thereon, Comes the Queen! Ave Regina Gloria! Solemn silence for the Queen.

'Neath this Flag a sailor dies, On the wave; 'Neath this Flag a soldier lies, For his grave. And the Queen of both was she, As she willed, so let it be;