<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Trumpet-Call</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Trumpeter, sound for the last Crusade!</p><p class="line">Sound for the fire of the red-cross kings,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sound for the passion, the splendour, the pity</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">That swept the world for a dead Man's sake,</p><p class="line">Sound, till the answering trumpet rings</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Clear from the heights of the holy City,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Sound till the lions of England awake,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sound for the tomb that our lives have betrayed;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">O'er broken shrine and abandoned wall,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Trumpeter, sound the great recall,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Trumpeter, rally us, rally us, rally us;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:14%">Sound for the last Crusade!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Trumpeter, sound for the splendour of God!</p><p class="line">Sound the music whose name is law,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Whose service is perfect freedom still,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">The order august that rules the stars.</p><p class="line">Bid the anarchs of night withdraw,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Too long the destroyers have worked their will,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Sound for the last, the last of the wars.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sound for the heights that our fathers trod,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">When truth was truth and love was love,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">With a hell beneath, but a heaven above,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Trumpeter, rally us, up to the heights of it!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:14%">Sound for the City of God.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Alfred Noyes.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Lord of Misrule.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) </p></body></html> · Great War