<h3> <SPAN name="reveille"></SPAN> PRISON REVEILLE </h3>
<p class="poem">
Out through the iron doorway, bolted strong,<br/>
I see the night guard's shadow on the wall.<br/>
The bugle sounds its thin, white silver call,<br/>
Awake! awake! O world-forgotten throng!<br/>
And then the sudden clanging of the gong,<br/>
And . . . silence . . . aching silence . . . over all;<br/>
While through the windows, steel-barred, stern and tall,<br/>
Pale daylight greets us like a plaintive song.<br/></p>
<p class="poem">
Somewhere the dawn breaks laughing o'er the sea<br/>
To splash with gold the cities' domes and towers,<br/>
And countless men seek visions wide and free,<br/>
In that alluring world that is not ours;<br/>
But no one there could prize as much as we<br/>
The open road, the smell of grass and flowers.<br/></p>
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