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The Volunteer

    By Henry John Newbolt, Sir



    "He leapt to arms unbidden,
        Unneeded, over-bold;
    His face by earth is hidden,
        His heart in earth is cold.

    "Curse on the reckless daring
        That could not wait the call,
    The proud fantastic bearing
        That would be first to fall!"

    O tears of human passion,
        Blur not the image true;
    This was not folly's fashion,
        This was the man we knew.



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