Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE REVEILLE Earle! 1 hear the tramp of thousands. And of armed mm the hum; Lo! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum —- Raying, “Come, Preemen, comel Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum, m Let me of my heart take counsel: War is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall comet" But the drum Echoed, “Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn-sounding drunu “But when won the'coming battle, - ~ What of profit springs therefromf What if conquest, subjugation, Even greater ills become t" But the drum Answered, “Come! You must do the sum to prove it," said the Yankee-answering drum. “What if, 'mid the cannons' thunder, Whistling shot and bursting bomb, When my brothers fall around me, Should my heart grow cold and numbl" But the drum, Answered, “Come! Better there in death united, than in life a recreant — Come!" ’ * . Thus they answered — hoping, fearing, Some in faith, and doubting some, Till a trumpet-voice proclaiming, Said, “My chosen people, come!" , Then the drum, Lo! was dumb, For the great heart of the nation, throbbing, answered, “Lord, we comer —BRET EARTE.