AFTER THE BATTLE.
Joaquin Miller
ing banners and cannon and roll of drum! - The shouting of men and the marshaling!
- Lo! cannon to cannon and earth struck dumb!
- Oh, battle, in song, is a glorious thing!
- Oh, glorious day, riding down to the fight!
- Oh, glorious battle in story and song!
- Oh, godlike man to die for the right!
- Oh, manlike God to revenge the wrong!
- Yea, riding to battle, on battle day—
- Why, a soldier is something more than a king!
- But after the battle! The riding away!
- Ah, the riding away is another thing!