| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | February 15 | | Off Havana | | By John Hall Ingham (1860–1931) |
| | | 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, | |
| Whene’er our Country calls,—forgetting not, | |
| Her sons shall press undaunted to the goal, | |
| Die in their duty and be unforgot. | | | | |
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