Tower of Ivory/The Bugles Pass

by Archibald MacLeish

THE BUGLES PASS

Who's for the war!
Who more
Makes end of doubting!

Who'll wake
Now trumpets shake
The earth with shouting!

I know
Where dips a way
Has merry ending;

There go
The young and gay
That sing descending.

I know
Where climbs a road
Into to-morrow;

There go
The seed of God
Toward the furrow;

I know
Where shines the sun
On windy spaces,

Where low
The shadows run,
The swallow races;

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But Oh!
When youth is gone
The glory passes.