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The
Soul's Quest and Other Poems
by
Frederick George Scott
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BRITISH
WAR SONG
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“WARS
and rumours of wars”—the clouds lower
over the sea,
And a man must now be a man, if ever a man can be;
“Wars and rumours of wars”—a cry
from the flaming East,
For the vultures are gathered together, and the
lions roar over the
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feast.
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| War!
Shall we flinch! Shall we tremble! Shall we shrink
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cowards
from the fray? |
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Better
all Britons were dead than their glory passed away!
The clouds may be dark and lowering, the storm may
be loud and |
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long, |
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the hearts of our men are true, and the arms of
our men are |
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strong.
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From the thousand years of glory, from the grave
of heroes gone, |
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a voice on the breath of the storm, and a power
to spur us |
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on: |
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A
man must now be a man, and every man be true,
Fro the grave that covers our glory shall cover
each Briton too.
1885.
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