To pour the wine and raise the cup

As we toasted “Our flag and land!”

And the room seemed filled with whispers

As we looked at the vacant seats,

And, with choking throats, we pushed aside

The rich but untasted meats;

Then in silence we brimmed our glasses,

As we rose up—just eleven,

And bowed as we drank to the loved and the dead

Who had made us thirty-seven!