Trail All Your Pikes
Trail all your pikes,dispirit every drum, March in a slow procession from afar, Ye silent,ye dejected, men of war. Be still the hautboys,and the flute be dumb! Display no more,in vain,the lofty banner; For see where on the bier before ye lies The pale,the fall'n,the untimely sacrifice To your mistaken shrine,to your false idol Honour. |