<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Charge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, men of the North! will you join in the strife<br>For country, for freedom, for honor, for life?<br>The giant grows blind in his fury and spite,--<br>One blow on his forehead will settle the fight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flash full in his eyes the blue lightning of steel,<br>And stun him with cannon-bolts, peal upon peal!<br>Mount, troopers, and follow your game to its lair,<br>As the hound tracks the wolf and the beagle the hare!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blow, trumpets, your summons, till sluggards awake!<br>Beat, drums, till the roofs of the faint-hearted shake!<br>Yet, yet, ere the signet is stamped on the scroll,<br>Their names may be traced on the blood-sprinkled roll!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust not the false herald that painted your shield<br>True honor to-day must be sought on the field!<br>Her scutcheon shows white with a blazon of red,--<br>The life-drops of crimson for liberty shed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hour is at hand, and the moment draws nigh;<br>The dog-star of treason grows dim in the sky;<br>Shine forth from the battle-cloud, light of the morn,<br>Call back the bright hour when the Nation was born!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rivers of peace through our valleys shall run,<br>As the glaciers of tyranny melt in the sun;<br>Smite, smite the proud parricide down from his throne,--<br>His sceptre once broken, the world is our own!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472566" data-title="The Last Charge de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="Now, men of the North! will you join in the strife For country, for freedom, for honor, for life? The giant grows blind in his fury and spite,-- One blow on his forehead will settle the fight! Flash full in his eyes the blue lightning of steel, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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