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Though fades the Laurel, leaf by leaf away, The soul hath prescience of a fadeless day; And God’s eternal promise, like a star, From faded hopes still points to hopes afar; Where weary hearts for consolation trust, And bliss immortal quickens from the dust.

No Time—no element can mar the fame, Gather'd, like fadeless sunlight, round thy spotless name!

If the queen of Caria is deserving of praise for her martial valor, the name of the heroic wife of the gunner, should be woven with hers in a fadeless wreath of song.

He loved the credulous—those who believed without evidence—and for them he prepared a home in the realm of fadeless light.

Angelo, Raphael, Galileo and Bruno crowned with fadeless laurel the Italian brow, and now the most precious treasure of the Great Republic is the memory of Abraham Lincoln.