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                B ORN
              DI E D
               l1CCESS IO N,
                  ET
              M AY
                Nov.
               JA N ,
                   ED WA RD
              6TH
                9 TH
                1  8
               22 NO ,
                   VII.
                41
              1910.
                .
                  IMPERATOR.
               1901,


                                            He,

                                          His  life
                                                                               v2_
                                            only.  in  a
                                         So  mix'd  in  him,
                                                                           .r,
                                       '' This  was  a
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                                        And  say  to  all  the  world,
                                           And  common  good  to  all,
                                       man !  .,
                                                                              •
                                                                          BORN

                                          was  gentle:  and  the  elements
                                            general  honest  thought.
                                                                          1819,
                                                                         MAY  24th.
                                         that  Nature  might  stand
                                                                            Beloved
                                                                              IN
                                           made  one  of  them.
                                         up,

                                                                          CROWNED
                                                                         JUNE  28th.
                                                                              MEMORY  OF
                                                                          1838,

                                                                              OUR
                                                                                   Bewitched Bothered and  Bewildered b

























             E DWA RD THE  PEllCEMflKER .



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                 His
                   age,
                                    r esp
                                      of my
               welfare
                     Sovereign
                     quarter  to
                                 "WI NDSOR
                    Buckingham
                                     zealo us
                whom  H which
                                      powers
                         "  London
                     King
                                      highest  interests  o
                      On  Friday  night
                                      to  f
                    Palace
                                           "To
                   and  the  tenth  of
                             "No,  I shall  g o on;
                                         tr ust which the  nation
                      the
                                     f ul fi lment
                                   now calle d  to undertake.
                    in  th
                     o'clock,
                                           Mv
                   His
                         G a ze tte
                     twelve- Edward  e
                                     of
                      s ixth
                     th e
                     our
                                      mai ntaining
                                      my  people,
                                     the
                      of
              trated and adorned  H is character.
                   Reign.
                     late
                                 CASTLE,  Feb . 4th,  1901."
                                         ever  reposed
                                      and
                                      and
                      May
                                     great
                                           PEOPLE."
                                      to
                     Seventh
                   This
               He  invar iably  manifested,
                     Most
                                         in  itc;
                                      the
                                     a nd
               by  the  emine nt  and  impress ive  virtues  which
                      insta nt,
                         Extraord inary,''
                                          "Encouraged  b y the  confidence  of that  love
                                     and  o nsibil ities which .  through  the will of God,  I
                                       walk in her footsteps,  d evoting myself to  the  ing
                                  "EDWARD  RI.
                     expired
                        W hitehall, May 7th,  1 910.
               illus-
                  caused one  universa l  fee ling of r egret and sorr ow to
                      at  a
                 Majesty's  fa ithful  and  attached subjects, to
                     at
                     Gr aciou s
                    sixty-ninth  year  of  H is
                   event  has
               as well  as
                 late  e  was endea r ed  by the deep interest in  the ir
                             I  shall  work  to the end."
                                      t he
                                     sacred
                                       u t most
                                          a n d
                                        fondly mourned Svvereign ,  I  shall earnestly strive t o
                           Last words of  Ring  Edward V II.
                                    am
                                      promot d il igent
                                         late  and
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