<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Songs for the Soldiers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF songs be sung let minstrels strike their harps<br>To large and joyous strains, all thunder-winged<br>To beat along vast shores. Ay, let their notes<br>Wild into eagles soaring toward the sun,<br>And voiced like bugles bursting through the dawn<br>When armies leap to life! Give them such breasts <br>As hold immortal fires, and they shall fly, <br>Swept with our little sphere through all the change <br>That waits a whirling world. <br> Joy's an immortal;<br>She hath a fiery fibre in her flesh<br>That will not droop or die; so let her chant<br>The pæans of the dead, where holy Grief<br>Hath, trembling, thrust the feeble mist aside<br>That veils her dead, and in the wondrous clasp<br>Of re-possession ceases to be Grief.<br>Joy's ample voice shall still roll over all,<br>And chronicle the heroes to young hearts<br>Who knew them not.....<br> There's glory on the sword <br>That keeps its scabbard-sleep, unless the foe <br>Beat at the wall, then freely leaps to light <br>And thrusts to keep the sacred towers of Home <br>And the dear lines that map the nation out upon the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413320" data-title="Songs for the Soldiers de Isabella Valancy Crawford" data-description="IF songs be sung let minstrels strike their harps To large and joyous strains, all thunder-winged To beat along vast shores. Ay, let their notes Wild into eagles soaring toward the sun, And voiced like bugles bursting through the dawn When armies ..."></div> </div> </div>

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