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ENSIGN EPPS at the battle of Flanders	A
Sowed a seed of glory and duty	B
That flowers and flames in height and beauty	B
Like a crimson lily with heart of gold	C
To day when the wars of Ghent are old	C
And buried as deep as their dead commanders	A
	-
Ensign Epps was the color bearer	D
No matter on which side Philip or Earl	E
Their cause was the shell his deed was the pearl	E
Scarce more than a lad he had been a sharer	D
That day in the wildest work of the field	F
He was wounded and spent and the fight was lost	G
His comrades were slain or a scattered host	H
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But stainless and scatheless out of the strife	I
He had carried his colors safer than life	I
By the river's brink without weapon or shield	F
He faced the victors The thick heart mist	J
He dashed from his eyes and the silk he kissed	J
Ere he held it aloft in the setting sun	K
As proudly as if the fight were won	K
And he smiled when they ordered him to yield	F
	-
Ensign Epps with his broken blade	L
Cut the silk from the gilded staff	M
Which he poised like a spear till the charge was made	L
And hurled at the leader with a laugh	M
Then round his breast like the scarf of his love	N
He tied the colors his heart above	N
And plunged in his armor into the tide	O
And there in his dress of honor died	O
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Where are the lessons your kinglings teach	P
And what is text of your proud commanders	A
Out of the centuries heroes reach	P
With the scroll of a deed with the word of a story	B
Of one man's truth and of all men's glory	B
Like Ensign Epps at the battle of Flanders	A

John Boyle O'reilly

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