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COPYRIGHT 1899

BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

This edition is published under arrangement with

Charles Scribner's Sons, of New York

ON BEHALF OF THE ROUGH RIDERS

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE

FIVE REGULAR REGIMENTS

WHICH TOGETHER WITH MINE MADE UP THE

CAVALRY DIVISION AT SANTIAGO

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

EXECUTIVE MANSION
ALBANY, N. Y.,
May 1, 1899

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Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,
And of armed men the hum;

Lo! a nation's hosts have gathered

Round the quick-alarming drum-
Saying, "Come,

Freemen, come!

Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick-alarming drum.

“Let me of my heart take counsel;
War is not of Life the sum;

Who shall stay and reap the harvest
When the autumn days shall come?"
But the drum

Echoed, "Come!

Death shall reap the braver harvest,” said the solemn-sound. ing drum.

"But when won the coming battle,
What of profit springs therefrom?
What if conquest, subjugation,
Even greater ills become?"

But the drum

Answered, "Come!

You must do the sum to prove it," said the Yankee-answer