| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| | | Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977) |
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| WHAT sudden bugle calls us in the night | |
| And wakes us from a dream that we had shaped; | |
| Flinging us sharply up against a fight | |
| We thought we had escaped. | |
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| It is no easy waking, and we win | 5 |
| No final peace; our victories are few. | |
| But still imperative forces pull us in | |
| And sweep us somehow through. | |
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| Summoned by a supreme and confident power | |
| That wakes our sleeping courage like a blow, | 10 |
| We rise, half-shaken, to the challenging hour, | |
| And answer it—and go. | |
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