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KING EDWARD VII.
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to celebrate it; but their disappointment was borne by them with admirable patience and temper. The prayers of my people for my recovery were heard; and I now offer up my deepest gratitude to divine providence for having preserved my life and given me strength to fulfil the important duties which devolve upon me as the Sovereign of this great Empire.
(1902)
When the deferred great ceremony at last took place, it was said that His Majesty, as he left the Abbey, "looked like a man who had seen a vision." Was it the
"Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be, . . . . . .
When the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd.
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the World."
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