• Bugles!
    and the Great Nation thrills and leaps to arms!
    Prompt, unconstrained, immediate,
    Without misgiving and without debate,
    Too calm, too strong for fury or alarms,
    The people blossoms armies and puts forth
    The splendid summer of its noiseless might;
    For the old sap of fight
    Mounts up in South and North,
    The thrill...