James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | February 15 | Off Havana | By John Hall Ingham (18601931) |
| THERE came at night a clarion call from Heaven | |
To heroes souls that unto mortal ears | |
Sounded the blasts of Hell. The hopes and fears, | |
The loves and hates that earth and time had given, | |
Through pain and death passed to Eternity. | 5 |
The shattered vessel, shivering in the flood | |
Of hostile waters, stained with martyrs blood, | |
Uprose and sank.Silence was on the sea. | |
Silence was there, but in the hearts of men | |
Through all the echoing centuries shall roll | 10 |
That thunderpeal of foe or fate. Again, | |
Wheneer our Country calls,forgetting not, | |
Her sons shall press undaunted to the goal, | |
Die in their duty and be unforgot. | | | |
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