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Excerpt from The Bugle of Right: What the Old Flag Said and Other Poems of the New Patriotism By the breath of our God it is blown; It is calling from sea unto sea To the leal of our land, In appeal and command Hear it sounding for you and for me. Shall we answer in love for our own? Shall we hasten our homes to defend? Must our Flag of the Brave Be a Sign of the slave Till our nation in folly shall end? When the minions of Drink are enrolled Under banners of lust and of greed, With a purpose to win For the succor of sin And the glory of Wrong and its creed, Then the yeomen of God must be bold And unflinching to do and to dare, As with fervor of hate For the foe of the State Into battle His banner they bear. When the coward would compromise all For the fleeting success of to-day, Or a truce would invite With the foemen of Right, Or would flee from the fight in dismay, Then God's yeomen upon Him will call For the courage of soul to be true, And will follow the gleam Of His leading supreme, Though the faithful grow weary and few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.