Roll Call

"Corporal Green 1" the Orderly crled, "Here!" was the answer, loud and clear, From the lips of the soldier who stood near; And "Here!" was the word the iiext replied. "Cyrus Drew!" - then silence feil- Thls time no anBwer followed-the ca!l; Only hie ï'ear inaa had seen him fa!l, Killed or wounded, he could not tel!. Thers they stood in the failicg liRht, These men of battle, with grave, dark lot.k'. As plain to be read as opea books Wbile slowly gathered the shades of mght. The fern on the hillsides was splashed with ood And down in the corn where the poppies grew, Were redder stains than the poppies knew And crimeon-dyed was the river'a flood. For the foe had crossed from the other side That day in the face of a murderous fire, Thatswept thein down in its terrible ire, And their Jife blood went to color the tide. 'Herbert Kline!" At the cali there came Two staiwart soldiere into the line, Bearing between thein this Herbert Kline, Wounded and bleeding, to auswer his name. "Kzra Kerr!"- and a veice answered, "Here!" "Hiraai Kerr!" - but no man replied. They wei e bic there, these two; the sad wind sighcd, Aud a ehudder crept through the corDfi near. "Kphraim Deane!" - then a soldier spoke: "Deane carried our regiment's colors," he said; "Where our ensign wb shot I left him dead, Just af tor the ennny wavered and broke. "Close to theroadsido his body lies; "I paused a moment and gave him drink; He murmured his mothei's name, I think, And death came with it, and cloed hia eyes." Twas a victory, yes, lnt it cost us doar- For that company's rol!, when caJled at night Of a hundred men who went into the fight, iumbered bnt twenty that answered "Herel"