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32 KING ARTHUR'S MEN HAVE COME AGAIN

[Written while a field-worker in the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.]

ING ARTHUR'S men have come again. They challenge everywhere The foes of Christ's Eternal Church. Her incense crowns the air. The heathen knighthood cower and curse To her the bugles ring, But spears are set, the charge is on, Wise Arthur shall be king!

And Cromwell's men have come again, I meet them in the street. Stern but in this&mdash;no way of thorns Shall snare the children's feet. The reveling foemen wreak but waste, A sodden poisonous band. Fierce Cromwell builds the flower-bright towns, And a more sunlit land!