There dormant dwells the roar of battle royal,
The clash of arms amid war’s furnace flame,
Victorious cries of warriors brave and loyal,
A people’s loud acclaim;
With words that gladdened hearts of earliest lovers,
And curses since night’s robes trailed Eden’s sky,
While vague as half-remembered dreams there hovers
Each mother’s lullaby.
O sounds afar in ether spaces dwelling,
In mighty minstrelsy awake! Unite