Lesson:

1. A soldier! a soldier! I'm longing to be:


The name and the life of a soldier for me!


I would not be living at ease and at play;


True honor and glory I'd win in my day.





2. A soldier! a soldier! in armor arrayed;


My weapon in hand, of no contest afraid;


I'd ever be ready to strike the first blow,


And to fight my way through the ranks of the foe.





3. But then, let me tell you, no blood would I shed,


No victory seek o'er the dying and dead;


A far braver soldier than this would I be;


A warrior of Truth, in the ranks of the free.





4. A soldier! a soldier! Oh, then, let me be!


My friends, I invite you, enlist now with me.


Truth's bands shall be mustered, love's foes shall give way!


Let's up, and be clad in our battle array!





J. G. Adams.