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  • Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits
    To bear thee to the battle back;--
    Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,--
    Thy dog would break thy bivouac;
    Thy plume is trailing in the dust,
    And thy red falchion gathering rust.

    Thomas Kibble Hervey (1866). “The Poems of Thomas Kibble Hervey”, p.36