Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REVEILLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER


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First Line: What sudden bugle calls us in the night
Last Line: And answer it -- and go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Patriotism


What sudden bugle calls us in the night
And wakes us from a dream that we had shaped;
Flinging us sharply up against a fight
We thought we had escaped.

It is no easy waking, and we win
No final peace; our victories are few.
But still imperative forces pull us in
And sweep us somehow through.

Summoned by a supreme and confident power
That wakes our sleeping courage like a blow,
We rise, half-shaken, to the challenging hour,
And answer it -- and go.








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