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Rh Love of Life

An English Soldier

E died for love of race; because the blood

Of northern freemen swelled his veins; arose

True to tradition that like mountain stood

Impregnable, crown'd with its pathless snows.

When broke the call, from the sepulchred years

Strong voices urged and stirr'd his soul to life; 98