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Let us not stop to measure what is prudent for us to give, but let us
give freely, promptly, as we would do if we saw before us the suffering
victims of this holy war! Every dollar may save a life, every penny a
pang. O God! shall we stop to count pence with our stricken brave
_dying_ and bleeding before us? Every gift, however small, from a loyal
soul, will be greeted, every good giver welcomed. Let us listen to the
most sublime of all music, the great heart-throbs of a free people
chiming together in the vigorous rhythm of the Divine charities. Let our
nation comprehend from within the march of its vast destinies, its true
and ever-growing force in the love and self-sacrifice of its children.
Let the benediction of our American Evangel, 'All men are born free and
equal,' sound on until all voices swell in the grand diapason of
everywhere harmonious and united Humanity, for this is the strength of
man and the true meaning of our Union.
'From the vine-land, from the Rhine-land,
From the Shannon, from the Scheldt,
From the ancient homes of genius,
From the sainted home of Celt,
From Italy, from Hungary,
All as brothers join and come,
To the sinew-bearing bugle
And the foot-propelling drum:
Too glad beneath the starry flag to die, and keep secure
The Liberty they dreamed of by the Danube, Elbe, and Suir.
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