And seem to say with hollow steps,

From all that mighty vanguard gone before

To this small rearguard—Dead! Dead! Dead!

A few more years bivouac here,

A few more years of sepulture

In trench or dungeon, grave or moaning deep,

A few more years of Death’s soft slumbering night

Till all that spectral host appear

Before the throned Cynosure

Whose reveille will call them from their sleep