Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/Victory

by Florence Earle Coates

For other versions of this work, see Victory (Coates).

VICTORY

PEACE! for the silver bugles play,
⁠And the glad fifes, with shriller sound;
The drum beats fast, and, far away,
⁠Awakens joy profound.

From dawn unto the setting sun
⁠We battled, and our foes have lost;
O heart, my heart, the day is won,—
⁠Break thou, and pay the cost!