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To the Victor!
France crowns with laurel the dead American aviator.
Tho' the American mother mourns across the seas for her hero
son, who has touched the skies in France, the foster mother lays
her laurel of glory on the bier of Youth, whose brave spirit in
passing welds an eternal bond of sympathy and union to the end.
GERALDINE FARRAR.
June 23, 1918.