Fill up the story, and with one accord

Our people hush their conflicts—end their strife!

II.

Tell me, ye people, why doth this appeal

Go forth in measure swift as it has force,

To quicken souls, and make the nation's weal

Advance, unfettered, in its onward course,

Unless that they who live in these our times

May grasp the grand, o'erwhelming thought,

That he who led our troops in battle-lines,