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Hush -- let no whisper of the cruel strife, / Wherein he fell so bravely fighting, fall / Nigh these dead ears; fain would our hearts recall / Nought but proud memories of a noble life -- / Of unmatched skill to lead by pathways rife / With danger and dark doubt, where slander's knife / Gleamed ever bare to wound, yet over all / He pressed triumphant on -- lo, thus to fall. / Through and beyond the breach he living made / Shall Erin pass to freedom and to will, / And shape her fate: there where his limbs are laid / No harsh reproach dare penetrate the shade; / Death's angel guards the door, and o'er the sill / A mightier voice than Death's speaks Peace, be still!