The Drum

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The Drum

JOSEPH LEE

"Come to me, and I will give you flesh--Old Pibrochadh.

COME!

Says the drum;

Though graves be hollow,

Yet follow, follow:

Come!

Says the drum.

Life!

Shrills the fife,

Is in strife

Leave love and wife:

Come!

Says the drum.

Ripe!

Screams the pipe,

Is the field--

Swords and not sickles wield:

Come!

Says the drum.

The drum

Says, Come!

Though graves be hollow,

Yet follow, follow:

Come! "

Says the drum.

Title
The Drum
Identifier
greatwar_Eaton048
Item sets
Great Poems of the World War
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