"STAND STILL."

FLORENCE B. GORMAN.

Ye shall not need to fight—stand still!Not fight, and yon great hostSwiftly advancing, grimly bent on strife?Have we not heard their proud and vaunting boastThat they would make us creatures of their will?

O God! must we like cowards stand,Nor ever bend a bowTo speed one winged shaft to deal them death?Stand still?—not fight?—and see this hated foe,All unopposed, come and possess our land?

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