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Show GIVE US THE NEWS! GIVE us the news, whatsoever may happen, Glorious triumph or gloom of defeat; Dare not, presume not with heartstrings to meddle, Thinking to temper the tension and beat. Give us the news ! Give us the news of the boys who have left us ; Hold not the worst from the gaze of our eyes. Think you that we who have sired them that battle . Lack for the strength from disaster to rise? u Give us the news! Give us the news of our fighters, our children; Tell us the whole, nor from sorrow refrain, Think you that we who have borne them that suffer Know not the way to be valiant in pain? Give us the. news! w' Give us the news whatsoever may happen, Victory joyful or loss in the fray; ,, Keep not the cup the Almighty has poured us. God is the censor stand out of the way. "- " Give us the news! McLandburgh Wilson, in Life. sk sk ik 3k |