OUR SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS

Kildare Observer 22 August 1914

OUR SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS

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We hear the tread of Volunteers,

       The men are out for drill,

     We see them marching rank and file,

       From valley and from hill.

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The music of the fife and drum

       Is carried on the air;

     The martial spirit, strong in man,

       Is kindled in Kildare.

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Our Irish soldiers, staunch and brave,

       Second to none on earth,

     Whose splendid record fills with pride

       The land that gave them birth.

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Always the best of fighting men,

       Ready to do or die,

     To storm the breach or hold the fort,

       Nor ask the reason why.

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To-day they’ll follow where they’re led,

       And facing steel and gun,

     Fight as their valiant fathers fought,

       Win as their fathers won.

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Our Volunteers in North and South,

       In East and West will stand,

     Shoulder to shoulder, foot to foot,

       To guard the Motherland,

     “The Flag that braved a thousand years

       The battle and the breeze,”

     Will wave above our Volunteers.

       At home and over-seas.

By M.D.

Re-typed by Hannah Mustapha