ON TO FREEDOM.
DUGANNE.
This poem should be delivered with bold energy, with flashing eye, swelling breast, and free action—as though the speaker's heart was full of the nobility of the theme:
"There has been the cry—'On to Richmond!' And still another cry—On to England!' Better than either is the cry—'On to Freedom!'"
Charles Sumner.
O
N to Freedom! On to Freedom!
'Tis the everlasting cry
Of the floods that strive with ocean—