Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | Camp-Bell | | Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) |
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COME from my first, ay, come! | |
| The battle-dawn is nigh; | |
| And the screaming trump and the thundering drum | |
| Are calling thee to die! | |
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| Fight as thy father fought; | 5 |
| Fall as thy father fell; | |
| Thy task is taught; thy shroud is wrought; | |
| So forward and farewell! | |
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| Toll ye my second, toll! | |
| Fling high the flambeau’s light, | 10 |
| And sing the hymn for a parted soul | |
| Beneath the silent night! | |
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| The wreath upon his head, | |
| The cross upon his breast, | |
| Let the prayer be said and the tear be shed, | 15 |
| So,—take him to his rest! | |
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| Call ye my whole,—ay, call | |
| The lord of lute and lay; | |
| And let him greet the sable pall | |
| With a noble song to-day. | 20 |
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| Go, call him by his name! | |
| No fitter hand may crave | |
| To light the flame of a soldier’s fame | |
| On the turf of a soldier’s grave. | | | | |
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