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You shall live on triumphant, you shall take / Your place among the peerless, fearless ones; / And those who loved you here shall tell their sons / To honour every woman for your sake.
And those your Peers shall say, "Others are pure, / Others are noble, others too have vowed, / And for a vow have suffered; but she bowed / Her own soul and another's to endure.
She smote the being more to her than all, -- / Her own soul and the world, -- a truth to hold, / Faith with the dead; and hung a heavy pall
'Tween her and love and life. The world is old, / It hath sent here none queenlier. Of the few, / The royal few is she, martyred and true. "