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by Unknown

And he who hath this day made Death his faithful friend.

And now above his tomb

From out the eternal gloom

“Welcome!” his [♦]chieftain’s voice sounds o’er the cannon’s knell;

And of the three one only stays to say “Farewell!”

[♦] “chiftain’s” replaced with “chieftain’s”

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SUNSET FROM THE TRAIN.[¹]

From “Five Books of Song” (1894).