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“OUR LEADER”
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Yet is it so? May not the spirit grandWho fought a battle no soul yet has fought
For England's nobler soul, who, set at nought,
Contemned, rejected, lifted yet the land
Towards heights we dimly now can understand,—
Who in man's heart a work unheard-of wrought,
Heedless of thrones, exalting Love and Thought,
Discrowning Evil with his strong right hand—
May not to-day that spirit superb look down
From some great realm the greater for his crown
Of deathless pity, and his human might?
May not that spirit with England's soul to-day
Commune, our Leader in the heroic way,
Our Guide through grief to joy, through gloom to light?
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