[To the Portsmouth Boys, in] The re-union of '73 The second-reception of the sons and daughters of Portsmouth, resident abroad, July 4, 1873 |
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To the Portsmouth Boys
Come rally, boys! Awake, Awake!
Hear, old affection on you calling,
Your childhood's home appeal doth make,
On willing ears may it be falling!
She calls you from your busy care,
To meet her in her pleasant places,
Her old regard again to share,
And smiles from old familiar faces.
Hear, old affection on you calling,
Your childhood's home appeal doth make,
On willing ears may it be falling!
She calls you from your busy care,
To meet her in her pleasant places,
Her old regard again to share,
And smiles from old familiar faces.
Each rock and haunt, remembered well,
Will send its hundreds forth to meet you;
Joy's loudest note will widely swell,
And ardent hearts expand to greet you.
And bell and gun and flame and tongue
Will blend their notes in peal sonorous,
Familiar as of old they rung,
And Welcome! Welcome! be the chorus.
Will send its hundreds forth to meet you;
Joy's loudest note will widely swell,
And ardent hearts expand to greet you.
And bell and gun and flame and tongue
Will blend their notes in peal sonorous,
Familiar as of old they rung,
And Welcome! Welcome! be the chorus.
Crowd not the generous impulse back
That prompts the thought in which you gather;
Twere well to leave life's dusty track,
And turn in filial duty hither—
To once again in union join.
'Mid scenes that saw your life's unsealing,
And at the well-remembered shrine
Kindle anew the heart's true feeling.
That prompts the thought in which you gather;
Twere well to leave life's dusty track,
And turn in filial duty hither—
To once again in union join.
'Mid scenes that saw your life's unsealing,
And at the well-remembered shrine
Kindle anew the heart's true feeling.
B. P. S.
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