The Reveille
Men of England! who inherit; Rights that cost your sires their blood! Men whose undegencrate spirit Has been proved on field and flood — What are monuments of bravery, Where no public virtues bloom? What avails in lands of slavery Trophied temples, arch, and tomb? Pageants! Let the world revere us For our peoples rights and laws, And the breasts of civic heroes Bared in Freedom!s holy cause. We're the sons of sires that baffled Crown’d and -mitred tyranny: — They defied the field and scaffold. For their birthrights —so ‘Will we!
—Thomas Campbell.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 176, 20 April 1940, Page 15
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94The Reveille Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 176, 20 April 1940, Page 15
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