Spoils, heroic, tumultuous, Emblems, worthy remembrance-- Marking a hero"s grave.
[_While this is being sung there enters a procession of youths dressed in white, each carrying a gigantic wreath, inscribed with one of_ Arnold"s _victories:--The Maine Wilderness, Quebec, Valcour"s Island, St. John"s, Ridgefield, Bemis Heights, Saratoga, etc. They circle the group, and pile the wreaths about the couch, then stand about in symmetry._]
_Father Hudson_. Enough, my children, I understand. Leave me awhile.
Let there be no loud praises. Go silently.
[_A dead march is played._ Father Hudson _resumes the plastic, immobile, and almost invisible att.i.tude which he occupied at the opening of the play. The_ Choruses _file silently out, one on each side of the orchestra._]
THE END
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