Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.

“Oh, the fighting races don’t die out,

If they seldom die in bed—

For love is first in their hearts, no doubt,”

Said Burke; then Kelly said:

“When Michael, the high Archangel, stands,

The Angel with the sword,

And the battle-dead from a hundred lands

Are ranged in one big horde—

Our line, that for Gabriel’s trumpet waits,