Full of a nature Ceaseless aspiring, Ceaseless content, Darkness or sunshine Glorious fountain! Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward, like thee! S STAND BY THE FLAG! JOHN NICHOLS WILDER TAND by the Flag! Its stars, like meteors gleaming, Have lighted Arctic icebergs, Southern seas, And shown responsive to the stony beaming Of old Arcturus and the Pleiades. Stand by the Flag! Its stripes have streamed in glory, And spread in rhythmic lines the sacred story Stand by the Flag! On land and ocean billow, Stand by the Flag! Immortal heroes bore it And their imperial shades still hover o'er it, Stand by the Flag, though death shots round it rattle, In all the dread array of sanguine battle, Stand by the Flag, all doubt and danger scorning! CARMEN BELLICOSUM GUY HUMPHREYS MCMASTER N their ragged regimentals When the grenadiers were lunging, Cannon shot; When the files Of the isles, From their smoky night encampment, bore the banner of the rampant Unicorn, And grummer, grummer, grummer, roll'd the roll of the drummer, Through the morn! Then with eyes to the front all, Stood our sires; And the balls whistled deadly, And in streams flashing redly Blazed the fires; As the roar On the shore, |