Of freedom crowning all the land
Through battles gained and victories won.
“Some one,� our hero firmly said,
“Must die to get us out of this;�
Then leaped upon the strand and bared
His bosom to the bullets’ hiss.
“But ye are soldiers, and can fight,
May win in battles yet unfought;
I have no offering but my life,
And if they kill me it is nought.�