War-time Echoes: Patriotic Poems, Heroic and Pathetic, Humorous and Dialectic, of the Spanish-American WarLibrary Reprints, Incorporated, 1898 - 209 pages |
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Page 23 - We severed have been too long; Now let us have done with a worn-out tale, The tale of an ancient wrong. And our friendship last long as love doth last, and be stronger than death is strong.
Page 204 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness, and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 206 - Ah, in the sweet hereafter Columbia still shall show The sons of these who swept the seas how she bade them rise and go, — How, when the stirring summons smote on her children's ear, South and North at the call stood forth, and the whole land answered, " Here ! " For the soul of the soldier's story and the heart of the sailor's song Are all of those who meet their foes as right should meet with wrong, Who fight their guns till the foeman runs, and then, on the decks they trod, Brave faces raise,...
Page 26 - And now that the two are one again, Behold on their shield the word: "Refrain!" And the lion cubs twain sing the eagle's song: 'To be stanch and valiant and free and strong!" For the eagle's beak and the lion's paw, And the lion's fangs and the eagle's claw, And the eagle's swoop and the lion's might, And the lion's leap and the eagle's sight, Shall guard the flag with the word: "Refrain," Now that the two are one again!
Page 207 - ... .to battle, and good to be strong and free, To carry the hearts of a people to the uttermost ends of sea, To see the day steal up the bay where the enemy lies in wait, To run your ship to the harbor's lip and sink her across the strait : — But better the golden evening, when the ships round heads for home, And the long gray miles slip swiftly past in a swirl of seething foam, — And the people wait at the haven's gate to greet the men who win ! Thank God for peace ! Thank God for peace ! when...
Page 122 - The black mouths belch and thunder, and the shrapnel shrieks and flies; Where are the fain and the fearless, the lads with the dauntless eyes? Will the moment find them wanting! Nay, but with valor stirred ! Like the leashed hound on the coursing-ground they wait but the warning word. " Charge ! " and the line moves forward, moves with a shout and a swing.
Page 206 - ... deep in the golden west Invisible hands are limning a glory of crimson bars. And far above is the wonder of a myriad wakened stars! Peace! As the tidings silence the strenuous cannonade. Peace at last! is the bugle blast the length of the long blockade, And eyes of vigil weary are lit with the glad release, From ship to ship and from lip to lip it is "Peace! Thank God for peace.