StoryTitle("caps", "Nathan Hale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(122, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To drum-beat and heart-beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A soldier marches by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is color in his cheek, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is courage in his eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a moment he must die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By starlight and moonlight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He seeks the Briton's camp; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hears the rustling flag, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the armed sentry's tramp; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the starlight and moonlight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His silent wanderings lamp.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With slow tread and still tread, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He scans the tented line;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he counts the battery guns ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the gaunt and shadowy pine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his slow tread and still tread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gives no warning sign.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dark wave, the plumed wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It meets his eager glance;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it sparkles 'neath the stars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the glimmer of a lance—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A dark wave, a plumed wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On an emerald expanse.", "") ?>
PagePoem(123, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A sharp clang, a steel clang, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And terror in the sound! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the sentry, falcon-eyed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the camp, a spy hath found; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a sharp clang, a steel clang, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The patriot is bound.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With calm brow, steady brow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He listens to his doom;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In his look there is no fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor a shadow-trace of gloom; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But with calm brow and steady brow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He robes him for the tomb.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the long night, the still night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kneels upon the sod;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the brutal guards withhold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "E'en the solemn Word of God! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the long night, the still night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He walks where Christ hath trod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He dies upon the tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he mourns that he can lose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But one life for Liberty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the blue morn, the sunny morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His spirit-wings are free.", "") ?>
PagePoem(124, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But his last words, his message words, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They burn, lest friendly eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should read how proud and calm ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A patriot could die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his last words, his dying words, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A soldier's battle-cry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From monument and urn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sad of earth, the glad of heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His tragic fate shall learn;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The name of Hale shall burn.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Francis Miles Finch.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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