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BY SAM. C. REID, JR. AUTHOR OF “SCOUTING EXPEDITIONS OF THE TEXAS RANGERS,” ETC.
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The busy hum of day has passed,
And countless millions with the sun
Have set, for wo or weal the cast—
What’s said is said—what’s done is done.
And with the purple and the gold
There sinks many a soul to rest;
Hopes are wrecked—all fates are told—