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Show HAVE YOU DONE YOUR BIT ? Sons of Freedom, freedom-lovers in our land where all are free, Where upon the hill .horizons beacon-fires of Liberty By the hands of hardy yeomen in the years of old were lit, Answer to the Mother's summons: Have you, have yau "done your bit"? Have you pledged your bone and sinew, have you pledged your hearts to show In this darking hour of danger the allegiance that you owe? Or inert, inept, unheeding, do you by your hearthstones sit? Rouse, and let us hear your answer! Have you, have you "done your bit"? Are the Past's proud days forgotten, days when men were men indeed, And the creed of Faith and Honor triumphed o'er the dreams of Greed; When the words of Patric Henry seemed to each as Holy Writ, And from Lexington to Yorktown every patriot "did his bit"? 'Tis a glory but to name them, how they burn in memory, Those that with "Old Hickory" battled, or with Lawrence sailed the sea, Down to those that dared with Dewey, and who neither auailed nor quit, But, with fearlessness undaunted, nobly, nobly "did their bit"! Sons of Freedom, freedom-lovers, whatsoe'er your strain of birth, Native sons and sons adopted from the utmost ends of earth, Hark, America, your Mother, eyes with righteous justice lit, To defend her, to befriend her, bids you rise and "do your bit"! Clinton Scollard. |