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Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;
Coolbaugh Whedon, editor of the Argus;
Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading church;
A. D. Blood, several times Mayor of Spoon River;
And finally all of you, members of the Social Purity Club --
Your attention to Cambronne's dying words, / Standing with the heroic remnant / Of Napoleon's guard on Mount Saint Jean / At the battle field of Waterloo, / When Maitland, the Englishman, called to them:
"Surrender, brave Frenchmen! " --
There at close of day with the battle hopelessly lost, / And hordes of men no longer the army / Of the great Napoleon / Streamed from the field like ragged strips / Of thunder clouds in the storm.
Well, what Cambronne said to Maitland / Ere the English fire made smooth the brow of the hill / Against the sinking light of day / Say I to you, and all of you, / And to you, O world.
And I charge you to carve it / Upon my stone.