{"id":2384,"date":"2015-07-11T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2015-07-11T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T09:28:43","slug":"our-soldiers-and-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/our-soldiers-and-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Kildare Observer<\/em> 22 August 1914<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OUR SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We hear the tread of Volunteers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The men are out for drill,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We see them marching rank and file,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From valley and from hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The music of the fife and drum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is carried on the air;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The martial spirit, strong in man,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is kindled in Kildare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Irish soldiers, staunch and brave,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Second to none on earth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whose splendid record fills with pride<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The land that gave them birth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Always the best of fighting men,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ready to do or die,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To storm the breach or hold the fort,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nor ask the reason why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To-day they\u2019ll follow where they\u2019re led,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And facing steel and gun,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fight as their valiant fathers fought,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Win as their fathers won.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Volunteers in North and South,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In East and West will stand,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shoulder to shoulder, foot to foot,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To guard the Motherland,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Flag that braved a thousand years<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The battle and the breeze,\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will wave above our Volunteers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At home and over-seas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">By M.D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Re-typed by Hannah Mustapha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kildare Observer 22 August 1914 OUR SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS * We hear the tread of Volunteers, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The men are out for drill, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We see them marching rank and file, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From valley and from hill. * The music of the fife and drum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is carried on the air; 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