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by Unknown

Sleep, soldier! still in honored rest

Your truth and valor wearing;

The bravest are the tenderest,—

The loving are the daring.

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BEDOUIN SONG.

ROM the Desert I come to thee

On a stallion shod with fire;

And the winds are left behind