Poem of the day
by Don Marquis
He speaks as straight as his rifles shot,
As straight as a thrusting blade,
Waiting the deed that shall trouble the truce
His savage guns have made.
“You have dared the wrath of a dozen states,”
Was the challenge that he heard;
“We can die but once!” said the grim old King
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