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[Written for the gathering of survivors of the Indian Mutiny, Albert / Hall, 1907.]
To-day, across our fathers' graves, / The astonished years reveal / The remnant of that desperate host / Which cleansed our East with steel.
Hail and farewell! We greet you here, / With tears that none will scorn -- / O Keepers of the House of old, / Or ever we were born!
One service more we dare to ask -- / Pray for us, heroes, pray, / That when Fate lays on us our task / We do not shame the Day!