. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. THE REVEILLE irk I 1 hear the iramp of ihousandjAnd of armed men the hum ;Lo [ a nations ho^ts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum—Saying, Come,Freemen, come !Eire your heritage be wasted. said the quick alarming drum. Let me of my heart take counsel :War is not of Life the sum ;Who shall slay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall ? But the drumEchoed, Come 1Death shall reap the braver harvest, said the solemn-soundmg drum. What if. mid the battles thunder. Whistling shot and bursti

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. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. THE REVEILLE irk I 1 hear the iramp of ihousandjAnd of armed men the hum ;Lo [ a nations ho^ts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum—Saying, Come,Freemen, come !Eire your heritage be wasted. said the quick alarming drum. Let me of my heart take counsel :War is not of Life the sum ;Who shall slay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall ? But the drumEchoed, Come 1Death shall reap the braver harvest, said the solemn-soundmg drum. What if. mid the battles thunder. Whistling shot and bursting my brothers fall around me. Should my heart grow cold and numb ? But the drumAnswered Come IBetter there in death united than in life a recreant—come I Thus they answered—hoping, in faith, and doubting a trumpet-voice proclaiming. Said, My chosen people, come!Then the drum,Lo I was the great heart of the nation, throbbing, answered, Lord, we come! GEORGE NEWNES, LTD., 8 TO ii SOUTHAMPTON STREET,

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