We are coming by battalions, for the word was carried forth:

"We have put the pen away,

And the sword is out to-day,

For the Lord has loosed the Vintages of Wrath."

We are singing in the ships as they carry us to fight,

As our fathers sang before us by the camp-fires' light;

In the wharf-light glare

They can hear us Over There,

When the ships come steaming through the night.

Right across the deep Atlantic where the Lusitania passed,