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 176 mTV sowas. Go watch the'foremost ranks in danger's dark eareer, Be sure the hand most daring there, has wiped away tear. THE SOLDIER KNOWS THAT EVERY BALL. TH-. soldier knows that every bah - A certain billet bears, And whether doomed to rise or fall, Dishonor's all he fears. To serve his country is his plan, Una,'ed or uncSsmayed; He fihts her battles like a man..' And by her thanks he's )aid. - To foreign climes he cheerl F goe B$ duty only driven; An if be'fall, his country knows For whom the blow was given. Recorded on the front of day, ' The warrior's deeds appear; For him the poet breathes his lay, The-virgin sheds a tear, THE DASHING WHITE SElLlEANT. I I had a beau - For a oldier who'd go, Do you think I'd say no No, not If When ]is red coat I savF, Not a sigh would it draw, But give him he eclat for his bravery v. If an army of Amazons e'er came in play, As a dashing white serjeant I'd march awayt. March away,

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