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MEMORIAL ODE
Written by request of the City of Philadelphia for the Peace Celebration and read at Independence Hall, October 28, 1898.
The peace we longed to keep
Our fate denied;
Reluctant we awoke, as from a sleep,
And saw the face of Duty deified.
We followed with dismay
The awful hand
That drew us, step by step, along the way
And pointed to an agonizing land.
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