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Fairer far than the morning star, and sweet for us as
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THRENODY.
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Strong as truth and superb in youth eternal, fair as the
sundawn's flame
Seen when May on her first-born day bids earth exult in
her radiant name,
Lives, clothed round with its praise and crowned with
love that dies not, his love-lit fame.
III.
the songs that rang
Loud through heaven from the choral Seven when all
the stars of the morning sang,
Shines the song that we loved so long—since first such
love in us flamed and sprang.
England glows as a sunlit rose from mead to mountain,
from sea to sea,
Bright with love and with pride above all taint of sorrow
that needs must be,
Needs must live for an hour, and give its rainbow's glory
to lawn and lea.
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