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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO LIFE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY
First Line: The keen pursuit is more than captive prey
Last Line: Then sound the onset! Chance the last award!
Subject(s): Life
First Line: The keen pursuit is more than captive prey
Last Line: Then sound the onset! Chance the last award!
Subject(s): Life
THE keen pursuit is more than captive prey,
Mine be the ringing steel, the flashing sword;
I claim the fight, and not the victor's bay—
Then sound the onset! Chance the last award!
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