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MOODS OF WAR
She said, "I will hide all the brave books away from him, / With their scarlet letters that burn into the heart; / I will lock their spell and their sovereign sway from him; / I will rear him tenderly, a life apart. " / But the day came and the hour came, / And the foul deed struck him like a spur; / And he felt the shame and the swift flame, / And his eyes were strange to her.
In the dreams of the night had the old Captains come to him, / And the staunch old Admirals that died long ago; / From the old fields of fight came the roll of the drum to him, / With a call that his mother could not know; / It seemed that a Sword gleamed blinding-bright / At the dawn-edge of the sky; / And he said, "O Mother, the Right is the Right: / I must fight for it now though I die! "