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Show Bliss Carman's Ode. Bliss Carman has written a coronation ore in thirty-eight stanzas. L. C. Page & Co. publish it in pretty form. Here are two selections: III. They will take him up to Westminster and set i him in his place; 1 And Church and Lords and Commons will stand before his face, And hear him make reply, j In the name of God most high, j To be Their Faith's Defender, as it was in days I gone by, j With the thousand years behind him and the glory of his race. , XIX. Oh, East they go and West they go, and never can they bide, i For the longing that is in them and the whisper j at their side; They may stablish hearth and home, But the sons will forth and roam, As their fathers did before them, across the hollow foam. Till strangs lands lift to greet them at the edges of the tide. at |