And summon all to arm and out.
Far must he spread the word that day,
So, bidding me come to join the fray,
And blowing his horn, he rode away.
I had been married then a year;
My wife to me was doubly dear,
For a child had come our home to cheer.
I had not mingled in the strife
That swept the land; my aim in life
To tend my farm and cheer my wife.