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clothes and you shall have your blade!' ' 

 How short indeed the step at times 

 from sky to earth ! History, however, 

 records the fact that the marquis 

 actually took the sword and wielded it 

 with true Gallic brilliancy in our be- 

 half, and not many months ago Persh- 

 ing stood at a grave in the little Picpus 

 cemetery in the eastern environs of 

 Paris, and made the most eloquent 

 speech as yet evoked by the great 

 world war. With uncovered head the 

 American commander simply said: 

 "Lafayette! We are here!" I know 

 the spot; and if I remember right, just 

 outside the cemetery gate is a little 

 church, or convent, with a chapel, 

 where the tapers ever burn, presided 

 over by the sisters of the Order of the 

 Perpetual Adoration. And even as 

 that altar is never deserted for a mo- 

 ment night or day, so must we guard 

 with like devotion the sacred fires of 

 liberties now menaced not from with- 

 out, but from within. 

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