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Tho' these have past triumphant to the skies,
In the same hallow'd cause, new heroes rise.
Fresh spirits march to conquest, all endued
With unction from above, zeal, fortitude.
Before my eyes, suffused by starting tear,
Names pass, embalmed, and sanctified and dear.
Jowett, and Johnson, Holbeck, Richter, Shaw,
Whom love divine to dangerous realms could draw;
Fox, Carver, Ousely, known and praised afar,
With Morrison, so long a radiant star;
While Carey, Marshman, Ward, that veteran train,
Show, in their turn, what victories Faith may gain;
And if remembrance of the host beside
Here find no place, who equal toils divide,
On nobler records such serene rely,
Theirs is the grand memorial in the sky.
In the same hallow'd cause, new heroes rise.
Fresh spirits march to conquest, all endued
With unction from above, zeal, fortitude.
Before my eyes, suffused by starting tear,
Names pass, embalmed, and sanctified and dear.
Jowett, and Johnson, Holbeck, Richter, Shaw,
Whom love divine to dangerous realms could draw;
Fox, Carver, Ousely, known and praised afar,
With Morrison, so long a radiant star;
While Carey, Marshman, Ward, that veteran train,
Show, in their turn, what victories Faith may gain;
And if remembrance of the host beside
Here find no place, who equal toils divide,
On nobler records such serene rely,
Theirs is the grand memorial in the sky.
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