TO THE CHARGE!: PRUSSIAN WAR SONG
... TO THE CHARGE! PRUSSIAN WAR SONG To the charge High the trumpet-blast rings on the air, And the banners fly backwards that bid us prepare. Our swords will bite keenly for surely we know That the mig ...
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FOR FRANCE!: BRINGING UP THE GUNS
... FOR FRANCE! BRINGING UP THE GUNS HAVE you read in song and story How the dead Napoleon comes, Yearning still for earth-born glory, And the war-beat of the drums? Phantom legions file before him, Far u ...
A SALVO OF VICTORY
... 1. Ay, though with terrible loss Our columns have forced their way In firm advance to the heart of France, Let us rejoice this day. Let the banners flutter and toss, Let the cannon' ...
MASTERLESS
... In his harness thongs of glory, With his bridle blown before, Comes a steed of heroic story, With his fetlocks steeped in gore. Pie has been where deeds most deadly Their way thro' the carn ...
SUMMONED TO THE WAR
... 'Tis the Fatherland that calls me, O my mother, 'Tis the Fatherland that calls me, O my wife, Calls me and many a sad-hearted brother From the quiet hopes and labours of our life. ...
AFTER THE ATTACK
... THE crash of battle has died away, The black-mouthed cannon are dumb, The fight that began at dawn of day, When we waited and waited and thought the bray Of the trumpet would never co ...
THE FAVOURITE OF THE REGIMENT
... Stand fast, old steed, the foeman's ranks are riven That last stern charge hath scattered them like spray And here he lies for whom I fain had given This fife of mine ere ...
BY THE RHINE, 1870
... I STOOD at sunset, thoughtful, and alone, On the Cathedral tower of high Cologne, And heard the pleasant Rhine make murmurous moan. Heard it in pauses of more opulent sound That swa ...
THY BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIETH
... THY BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIETH All her corn-fields rippled in the sunshine, All her lovely vines, sweets-laden, bowed Yet some weeks to harvest and to vintage When, as one man's hand, a cloud Rose and sp ...
THE HAUNTED CHAMBER
... I'VE such a craze for what's refined, And sweet, and fair in womankind, That, tho' I'm clieery-hearted, I often think, and think with gloom Of all the Beauty that will bloom, And b ...
LOOKING FOR A DELIVERER
... SHE looks by turns upon the neighbours round-- And though there issues from her lips no sound, A passionate appeal is in her eyes;-- And on her children, impotently brave; Can ...
IN THE TRENCHES
... I saw you, when we went away With all the martial clang and rattle Of trump and drum, the trim array Of uniform, bedecked for battle; I saw you, in the Market Place You stood and cheer ...