Is the very best soldier that ever wore blue.
Your country is famed both in prose and in song;
To its sons truth and justice are said to belong—
Good principle, honour, with bravery too;
Prove now to us, captain, that this is quite true.
Let us have our old friend—you have better by scores,
But to us none so dear can e’er stand at our doors;
None other can seem half so good or so wise,
So worthy our care as he was in our eyes.
You must be enlightened, be generous too;