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Songs of the Fleet - Farewell

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Mother, with unbowed head             Hear thou across the sea         The farewell of the dead,             The dead who died for thee.         Greet them again with tender words and grave,         For, saving thee, themselves they could not save.         To keep the house unharmed             Their fathers built so fair,         Deeming endurance armed             Better than brute despair,         They found the secret of the word that saith,         "Service is sweet, for all true life is death."         So greet thou well thy dead             Across the homeless sea,         And be thou comforted             Because they died for thee.         Far off they served, but now their deed is done         For evermore their life and thine are one.

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