<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3><SPAN name="VI" id="VI"></SPAN>VI</h3>
<h3><i>The Supreme Sacrifice</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">Better than life, better than sea and morn,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">And all the sun-stained fragments of the day—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Ah! more than breeze, than purple clouds that stray<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Across dim twilights—I, the tempest-torn,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Fighting the stars for glory, who must scorn<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Heart-drops bespread along love’s cruel way<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Like scattered petals on the breast of May—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Better than life I love you, I forlorn.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Better than death—the sleeping and the peace<br/></span>
<span class="i1">When warm within the breast of brooding Earth<br/></span>
<span class="i0">My weary heart should give its woes release,<br/></span>
<span class="i4">The pitiful dark remembering not my loss,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The calm, wise years restoring joy for dearth—<br/></span>
<span class="i4">Better than death, my love, my burning cross.<br/></span></div>
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