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Thomas Kibble Hervey on Memorial Day

d. 1859 England

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Wake, soldier, wake, thy war-horse waits
To bear thee to the battle back;
Thou slumberest at a foeman’s gates,—
Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
Thy plume is trailing in the dust
And thy red falchion gathering rust.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Kibble Hervey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.