NEVER OR NOW! Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1862, soon after the outbreak of the American Civil War. Listen, young heroes 1 your country is calling! . Time strikes the liour for tho brave and the true! Now, while tlie foremost are fighting and falling, Fill up the ranks that have opened for you I ■ You whom the fathers made free and defended, Stain not tho scroll that emblazons their fame I You whose fair heritage spotless desconded, Leave uot your children a birthright of shame! Stay, not for questions while Freedom stands gasping I Wait not till Honour lies wrapped in his pall! ■ Brief tho lips' meeting be, swift tlio hands clasping, 'Off for tho ware!' is enough for them alll From the. hot plains wliero tlioy perish outnumbered, Furrowed and ridged by tho battlefield's plough, Comes the loud summons; too long you have slumbered, ..Hear the lust 'Angel-trump—Never or Now I
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 6
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153Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 6
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