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Hear the singing on the boats	A
As they halt beside the pier	B
Ah those fresh Italian throats	A
How they cheer	B
Yet the words they sing so loud	C
Bring depression to my heart	D
As I watch the youthful crowd	C
Thus depart	D
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We are going o'er the sea	E
Loyal sons of Italy	E
We are bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
See that lad of twenty years	F
Who is stretching out his hand	G
Toward his mother there in tears	H
On the strand	G
Should he perish in the strife	I
Under Afric's burning sky	J
There were nothing left in life	I
She must die	J
	-
Yet he's going o'er the sea	E
At the call of Italy	E
He is bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
Now the plank is pulled to land	G
And the last farewell is o'er	K
As the steamer at command	G
Leaves the shore	L
There are shouts and ringing cheers	F
For the boys are brave and strong	M
Yet one feels that there are tears	H
In their song	M
	-
We are going o'er the sea	E
Loyal sons of Italy	E
We are bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
Ah that mother who is left	N
She is weeping now alone	O
Like a Niobe bereft	N
Of her own	O
And at length I dare to speak	P
To the woman seated there	Q
With the tears upon her cheek	P
In despair	Q
	-
He has gone across the sea	E
Who so dutiful as he	E
He is bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
Nay good mother do not weep	R
Since the summons comes from Rome	S
Can we really wish to keep	R
Sons at home	S
And why not she made reply	J
We have no invading foe	T
I would send my son to die	J
Were it so	T
	-
But he's gone across the sea	E
Gone with thousands such as he	E
He is bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
What is Africa to me	E
If it swallow up my child	U
What care I for Tripoli	E
Spot defiled	U
Did not Abyssinian sand	U
Drink sufficiently our gore	L
Must we stain that fatal strand	U
As before	L
	-
Yet he's gone across the sea	E
Who more valorous than he	E
He is bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
Have we no great uses here	V
For the millions we outpour	L
Are our consciences quite clear	B
In this war	L
Are there no more roads to build	U
Schools to found and farms to work	W
That we let our boys be killed	U
By the Turk	W
	-
Yet we send them o'er the sea	E
Youthful sons of Italy	E
They are bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
We are hungry yet behold	U
How the price of food goes higher	K
And the nights will soon be cold	U
Without fire	K
Who will earn for me my bread	U
Who my little home will save	X
When he lies there cold and dead	U
In his grave	X
	-
But he's gone across the sea	E
Who so good and kind to me	E
He is bound for Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
To the churchyard near the bay	Y
Went the mother in her grief	Z
For her soul was moved to pray	Y
For relief	Z
And deep sobs convulsed her breast	U
As she knelt upon the sod	U
Where her husband lay at rest	U
Safe in God	U
	-
For the boy was o'er the sea	E
Whom she rocked upon her knee	E
He had gone to Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
She was buried yesterday	Y
With her husband side by side	U
Ere two months had passed away	Y
She had died	U
For one morning she had read	U
Of her son among the slain	A2
And they saw her old gray head	U
Sink in pain	A2
	-
Nevermore across the sea	E
Will he come to Italy	E
He was killed in Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
There was nothing more to tell	B2
Of a lad so little known	O
He was reckoned one who fell	B2
That alone	O
Was he wounded Did he lie	J
Long ill treated by the foe	T
And not know	T
	-
Yes he lies beyond the sea	E
Can it be that that is he	E
In the sands of Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E
	-
She had asked for nothing more	L
But in silence slowly failed	U
Dreaming ever of the shore	L
Whence he sailed	U
Till her face so wan and white	U
Flushed at last with sweet surprise	C2
And a strangely tender light	U
Filled her eyes	C2
	-
Then for her was no more sea	E
She had found the soul set free	E
From the sands of Tripoli	E
Tripoli	E

John L. Stoddard

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