VALEDICTORY.
And now in the days when the world is small, and ships of iron rush to
and fro upon the seas, and the sword has become a burden, and the
mightier plowshare ripples the plain, gone are the golden lilies, gone
the power of the soutane rouge, gone the House of Bourbon; and two
small islands of the gulf, St. Pierre and Miquelon, bound by their
rocks and beaten by the waves, gather the harvest of the sea under the
lion's protection, and mourn in their loneliness over that proud
supremacy which has passed away for ever.
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