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Oh faint and feeble hearted, comfort ye! / Nor shame those dead whose death was great indeed, / Greater than life in death. It doth not need, / Since we seek strength where healing may not be, / Faith in fair fables of eternal rest, / Nor seer's eyes to look beyond the grave.
That they endured and dared for us shall save / Our souls alive:they met, our tenderest, / Pain without plaint and death without dismay, / Bore and beheld sorrows unspeakable, / Yet shrank not from that double-edged distress, / But, eyes set steadfastly where ends the way, / They through all perils laughed and laboured well, / Nor ceased from mercy on the merciless.