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INSCRIPTIONS
FOR A BELL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
I call as fly the irrevocable hours,Futile as air or strong as fate to make
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
Even as men choose, they either give or take.
FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SET UP IN ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, BY AMERICAN CONTRIBUTORS
The New World's sons, from England's breasts we drewSuch milk as bids remember whence we came;
Proud of her Past wherefrom our Present grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's name.
PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON
To those who died for her on land and sea,That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.
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