Welcome, brothers, welcome here! <br />Cheerful are our hearts to-day, <br />Tell us, we would gladly hear, <br />How our cause speeds on its way. <br /> <br /> <br />Brothers, then the foe shall fall, <br />When we take our father's seats, <br />Here we pledge us, one and all, <br />We will drive him from our streets. <br /> <br /> <br />'Tis on us the work depends, <br />On the young and rising race; <br />And we'll try to make amends <br />For our country's deep disgrace. <br /> <br /> <br />Here we pledge ourselves anew, <br />Not to touch the drunkard's drink; <br />Proving faithful, proving true, <br />We will make the demon shrink.<br /><br />John Pierpont<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/welcome-brothers-for-a-cold-water-army/
