"When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it --lie down for an aeon or two. Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew..." ~Rudyard Kipling~
An excerpt from the "Commemoration Ode," delivered at Harvard University on 21 July, 1865 by James Russell Lowell.
"O Beautiful! my Country! ours once more!
...
What were our lives without thee?
What all our lives to save thee?
We reck not what we gave thee;
We will not dare to doubt thee,
But ask whatever else, and we will dare!"
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The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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