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Rh And vainly did you drive me far

With leagues of ocean stretched between:

My mortal flesh you might debar,

But not the eternal fire within.

My monarch died to rule for ever

A heart that can forget him never,

And dear to me, aye doubly dear,

Thoughts shut within the silent tomb,

His name shall be for whoso bear

This long sustained and hopeless doom.

And brighter in the hour of woe

Than in the blaze of victory's pride

That glory-shedding star shall glow

For which we fought and bled and died.