Ballads of Valor And Victory; Being Stories in Song From the Annuals of America
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Yet the gallant sailors answered, answered well-nigh to a man I Ere the dawn's first rose-flush kindled, swiftly sped the chosen eight Toward the batteries grimly frowning o'er the harbor's narrow gate. Sooth, he holds his life but lightly who thus gives the dare to Fatel The Men of the Merrimac They had passed the outer portal where the guns grinned, tier o'er tier, When portentous Morro thundered, and Socapa echoed clear, And Estrella joined a chorus pandemoniac to hear. Heroes without hands ...to waver, heroes without hearts to quail, There they sank the bulky collier 'mid the hurtling Spanish hail; Long shall float our starry banner if such lads beneath it sail! Hail to Hobson! Hail to HobsonI Hail to all the valiant set/ Clausen, Kelly, Deignan, Phillips, Murphy, Montagu, Charette! Howsoe'er we laud and laurel, we shall be their debtors yell Shame upon us, shame upon us, should the Nation e'er forget/ Private Blair of the Regulars (July i, 1898) It was Private Blair, of the regulars, before dread El Caney, Who felt with every throb of his wound the life-tide ebb away; And as he dwelt in a fevered dream on the home of his youth- ful years, He heard near by the moan and sigh of two of the volunteers.
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