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A MADRIGAL (QUEEN VICTORIA) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: WHO CAN DWELL WITH GREATNESS! GREATNESS IS TOO HIGH
Last Line: GREATER STILL AS WOMAN, GREATEST IN THY TEARS!
Subject(s): VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901);
WHO can dwell with greatness! Greatness is too high;
Flowers are for the meadow, suns are for the sky: --
Ah! but there is greatness in this land of ours,
High as is the sunlight, humble as the flowers!

QUEEN, of thee the fable! LADY, thine the fate!
Royal, and yet lowly, lowly and yet great; --
Great in far dominion, great in bannered years,
Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears!



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