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Far from the seried ranks you sway, / Firm in your own believing / In that frail brotherhood, who stray / Sore anguishing, sore grieving.
Such hands as yours, adown the years / Enchain a faith unbroken, / They stay the dreary waste of tears, / And lift to Hope a token!