III

Trumpeter, sound for the faith again!

Blind and deaf with the dust and the blood,

Clashing together we know not whither

The tides of the battle would have us advance.

Stand thou firm in the crimson flood,

Send the lightning of thy great cry

Through the thunders, athwart the storm,

Sound till the trumpets of God reply

From the heights we have lost in the steadfast sky,

From the Strength we despised and rejected. Then,

Locking the ranks as they form and form,

Lift us forward, banner and lance,

Mailed in the faith of Cromwell's men,

When from their burning hearts they hurled

The gage of heaven against the world!

Trumpeter, rally us, rally us, rally us,

Up to the heights again.

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