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Written February 24, 1898, on reading the latest news concerning the / battleship Maine, blown up in Havana harbor, February 15th.
/ I. The fathers of our fathers they were men! -- / What are we who now stand idle while we see our seamen slain? / Who behold our flag dishonored, and still pause! / Are we blind to her duplicity, the treachery of Spain? / To the rights, she scorns, of nations and their laws? / Let us rise, a mighty people, let us wipe away the stain! / Must we wait till she insult us for a cause? -- / The fathers of our fathers they were men!