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Show AN OLD "LIBERTY LOAN" SONG THE following poem, "Take the Loan," written by Edward Everett Ever-ett Hale in May, 1861, and set to music and sung throughout the country in the fall of that year, was recently sent to Secretary Lansing by Prof. Lu-ward Lu-ward Everett Hale, of Union college, who had found it in his father's Civil ar diary: Come, freemen of the land, Come meet the great demand, True heart and open hand Take the loan! For the hope the prophet's saw, For the swords your brothers draw, For liberty and law, Take the loan! Yo ludies of the land, As ye love the gallant band Who have drawn a soldier's brand, Take the loan! Who would bring them what she could, Who would give the soldiers food, Who would staunch her brother's blood, Take the loan! All who saw our hosts pass by, And who joined the parting cry, Wien we bade them do or die, Take the loan! Ah ye wisued their triumph then, And to meet their gaze like men, A ye hope to meet again, Take the loan! Who would press the great appeal " Of our ranks of seriied steel, Put your shoulders to the wheel, Take the loan! That our prayers in truth may rise, Which we press with streaming eyes, On the Lord of earth and skies, Take the loan! |