The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse
1837 (Loquitur William Lyon Mackenzie)W. Stewart Wallace
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Rax the Queen’s Arms off the wall,
Set your caps, and fill your muskets,
At the country’s call.
And the hay-fork from the byre,
And shoulder, port, present them
To the Regimentals’ fire.
A-flutter in your van,
And sing the song of brotherhood,
The brotherhood of man.
Be all your glowing song,
As by the farm-house windows
Your dead men tramp along.