And now, Life, Pride, Love, Patriotism and Death,
To you, O Freedom, purport of all!
(You that elude me most — refusing to be caught in songs of
    mine,)
I offer all to you.

'Tis not for nothing, Death,
I sound out you, and words of you, with daring tone —
    embodying you,
In my new Democratic chants — keeping you for a close,
For last impregnable retreat — a citadel and tower,
For my last stand — my pealing, final cry.

1876