Classic Poem

Onward! On for the Republic!
Live the Union evermore!
Down with traitors, down with rebels;
Quench the treason in its gore.
Hear it as the Lord's command,
As our fathers heard of yore,
Draw the sword for native land:
Live, Republic, evermore!

Up, and onward, to the rescue!
Let the serried traitors know
Loyal men in honest causes
Strike by far the heaviest blow.
While the heavens keep smiling on us,
And the rivers onward flow,
Freemen ne'er will turn their backs on
Freedom's haughty traitor-foe.

Up, and at them! To the rescue!
Close the chasm yawning wide
They have cleft for our destruction;
Crush the men who dare divide!
Hurl the lightnings of fierce war,
Thundering out on every side,
Louder than the battle's roar,
Live, Republic, evermore!