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First Line: The mightiest moments pass uncalendered
Last Line: Till ripening years have run.
Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901)


THE mightiest moments pass uncalendared,
And when the Absolute
In backward Time pronounced the deedful word
Whereby all life is stirred:
'Let one be born and throned whose mould shall constitute
The norm of every royal-reckoned attribute,'
No mortal knew or heard.

But in due days the purposed Life outshone -
Serene, sagacious, free;
Her waxing seasons bloomed with deeds well done,
And the world's heart was won ...
Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours - as in the All-One's thought lay she -
Till ripening years have run.






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