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Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Bozzaris! with the storied brave 20
Greece nurtured in her glory's time,
Rest thee; there is no prouder grave,
Even in her own proud clime.
We tell thy doom without a sigh;
For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's.-- 25
One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die!

1. This is a stirring selection to read aloud. What
makes it so? Read the lines that you like best.

2. What has the first stanza on page 324 to do with
the poem?

3. Explain: Suliote; Moslem; Plataea; lines 25-27,
page 324.

SAN JUAN HILL

BY GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING

Santiago, Cuba, was the center of some of the
heaviest fighting of the Spanish-American War. The
Spanish fleet had taken refuge from the American
fleet in Santiago Harbor. The Spanish army had been
concentrated there to protect their fleet. The
American army, under the general command of Major
General Shafter, invested the city. The following
extract describes picturesquely the fighting three
days before the Spanish fleet put to sea.

On June 30th the general order came to move forward
and every man felt that the final test of skill at arms
would soon come. The cavalry division of six regiments,
camped in its tracks at midnight on El Pozo Hill, awoke
next morning to find itself in support of Grimes' Battery, 5
which was to open fire here on the left.

The morning of July 1st was ideally beautiful, the sky
was cloudless and the air soft and balmy, peace seemed to
reign supreme, great palms towered here and there above
the low jungle. It was a picture of a peaceful valley. 10
There was a feeling that we had secretly invaded the Holy
Land. The hush seemed to pervade all nature as though
she held her bated breath in anticipation of the carnage.

Captain Capron's field guns opened fire upon the southern
field at El Caney and the hill resounded with echoes. 15
Then followed the rattle of the musketry of the attacking
invaders. The firing in our front burst forth and t