What if, both mad and blinded in their rage, Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage, And with a hostile step profane our sod! We shall not shrink, my brothers, but go forth
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry Timrod (18281867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 3639). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.