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I	A
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Ah who shall sound the hero's funeral march	B
And what shall be the music of his dirge	C
No single voice may chant the Nation's grief	D
No formal strain can give its woe relief	D
The pent up anguish of the loyal wife	E
The sobs of those who nearest in this life	E
Still hold him closely in the life beyond	F
These first with threnody of memories fond	F
But look Forth press a myriad mourners thronging	G
With hearts that throb in sorrow's exaltation	H
Moved by a strange impassioned hopeless longing	G
To serve him with their love's last ministration	H
Make way Make way from wave bound verge to verge	C
Of all our land that this great multitude	I
With lamentation proud albeit subdued	I
Deep murmuring like the ocean's mighty surge	C
May pass beneath the heavens' triumphal arch	B
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II	A
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What is the sound we hear	J
Never the fall of a tear	K
For grief repressed	L
In every breast	L
More honors the man we revere	M
Rising from East and West	L
There echoes afar or near	M
From the cool sad North and the burning South	N
A sound long since grown dear	M
When brave ranks faced the cannon's mouth	N
And died for a faith austere	M
The tread of marching men	H
A steady tramp of feet	O
That never flinched nor faltered when	H
The drums of duty beat	O
With sable hats whose shade	P
Falls from the cord of gold	Q
On every time worn face	R
With tattered flags in black enrolled	Q
Beneath whose folds they warred of old	Q
Forward firmly arrayed	P
With a sombre martial grace	R
So the Grand Army moves	S
Commanded by the dead	T
Following him whose name it loves	U
Whose voice in life its footsteps led	T
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III	A
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Those that in the combat perished	V
Hostile shapes and forms of friends	W
Those we hated those we cherished	V
Meet the pageant where it ends	W
Flash of steel and tears forgiving	G
Blend in splendor Hark the knell	X
Comrades ghostly join the living	G
Dreaming chanting All is well	X
They receive the General sleeping	G
Him of spirit pure and large	Y
Him they draw into their keeping	G
Evermore in faithful charge	Y
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IV	E
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Pass on O steps with your dead sad note	Z
For a people's homage is in the sound	A2
And the even tread in measured rote	Z
As a leader is laid beneath the ground	A2
Rumors the hum of a pilgrim train	H
That shall trample the earth as tramples the rain	H
Seeking the door of the hero's tomb	B2
Seeking him where he lies low in the gloom	B2
Paying him tribute of worker and mage	Y
Through age on age	Y
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V	E
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Tall pine tree on McGregor's height	C2
How didst thou grow to such a lofty bearing	G
For song of bird or beat of breeze uncaring	G
There where thy shadow touched the dying brow	D2
Were all thy sinewy fibres shaped aright	C2
Was there no flaw With what mysterious daring	G
Didst thou put forth each murmuring odorous bough	D2
And trust it to the frail support of air	K
We only know that thou art now supreme	E2
We know not how thou grewest so tall and fair	K
So from the unnoticed humble earth arose	F2
The sturdy man whom we bewailing deem	E2
Worthy the wondrous name fame's far voice blows	F2
And lo his ancient foes	F2
Rise up to praise the plan	H
Of modest grandeur loyal trust	C2
And generous power from man to man	H
That lifted him above the formless dust	C2
O heart by kindliness betrayed	C2
O noble spirit snared and strayed	C2
Unmatched upright thou standest still	G2
As that firm pine tree rooted on the hill	G2
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VI	E
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No paragon was he	E
But moulded in the rough	E
With every fault and scar	H2
Ingrained and plain for all to see	E
Even as the rocks and mountains are	H2
Common perhaps yet wrought of such true stuff	E
That common nature in his essence grew	I2
To something which till then it never knew	I2
Ay common as a vast refreshing wind	C2
That sweeps the continent or as some star	H2
Which 'mid a million shines out well defined	C2
With honest soul on duty bent	C2
A servant soldier President	C2
Meekest when crowned with victory	E
And greatest in adversity	E
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VII	E
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A silent man whom strangely fate	C2
Made doubly silent ere he died	C2
His speechless spirit rules us still	G2
And that deep spell of influence mute	C2
The majesty of dauntless will	G2
That wielded hosts and saved the State	C2
Seems through the mist our spirits yet to thrill	G2
His heart is with us From the root	C2
Of toil and pain and brave endurance	J2
Has sprung at last the perfect fruit	C2
The treasure of a rich assurance	J2
That men who nobly work and live	E
A greater gift than life may give	E
Yielding a promise for all time	K2
Which other men of newer date	C2
Surely redeem in deeds sublime	K2
Forerunner of a valiant race	R
His voiceless spirit still reminds us	L2
Of ever waiting silent duty	E
The bond of faith wherewith he binds us	L2
Shall hold us ready hour by hour	M2
To serve the sacred guiding power	M2
Whene'er it calls where'er it finds us	L2
With loyalty that like a folded flower	M2
Blooms at a touch in proud full circled beauty	E
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VIII	E
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Like swelling river waves that strain	H
Onward the people crowd	C2
In serried billowing train	H
And those so slow to yield	C2
On many a hard fought field	C2
Muster together	M2
Like a dark cloud	C2
In summer weather	M2
Whose threatening thunders suddenly are stilled	C2
And all the world is filled	C2
With smiling rest Victory to him was pain	H
Till he had won his enemies by love	E
Had leashed the eagle and unloosed the dove	E
Setting on war's red roll the argent seal of peace	N2
So here they form their solid ranks again	H
But in no mood of hatred or disdain	H
They say Thou who art fallen at last	C2
Beleaguered stealthily o'ercome by death	O2
Thy conqueror now shall be magnanimous	L2
Even as thou wast to us	L2
But not for thee can we blot out the past	C2
We would not if we might forget thy last	C2
Great act of war that with a gentle hand	C2
Brought back our hearts unto the mighty mother	M2
For whose defence and honor armed we stand	C2
We hail thee brother	M2
And so salute thy name with holy breath	O2
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IX	L2
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Land of the hurricane	H
Land of the avalanche	P2
Land of tempest and rain	H
Of the Southern sun and of frozen peaks	L2
Stretching from main to main	H
Land of the cypress glooms	L2
Land of devouring looms	L2
Land of the forest and ranch	P2
Hush every sound to day	C2
Save the burden of swarms that assemble	Q2
Their reverence dear to pay	C2
Unto him who saved us all	R2
Ye masses that mourn with bended head	C2
Beneath whose feet the ground doth tremble	Q2
With weight of woe and a sacred dread	C2
Lift up the pall	S2
That to us shall remain as a warrior's banner	M2
Gaze once more on the fast closed eyes	L2
Mark once the mouth that never speaks	L2
Think of the man and his quiet manner	M2
Weep if you will then go your way	C2
But remember his face as it looks to the skies	L2
And the dumb appeal wherewith it seeks	L2
To lead us on as one should say Arise	L2
Go forth to meet your country's noblest day	C2
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X	L2
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Ah who shall sound the hero's funeral march	B
And what shall be the music of his dirge	Y
Let generations sing as they emerge	Y
And pass beneath the heavens' trumphal arch	B