Illinois and War

ILLINOIS AND WAR

Wallace Rice Edward C. Moore.

Adagio. mf agitato

Copyright in 1918 by Edward C. Moore.

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War's lightnings flash, his thunders crash Along the startled skies. The world's aflame with deeds of shame And sad are women's eyes. Ye

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freemen all, rise at the call! March on to join the fight! And raise on high the battle cry: America and Right!

Chorus.

Ye freemen all, rise

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at the call! March on to join the fight! And raise on high the battle cry: America and Right!

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Trumpets. Maestoso

2 HAIL, ILLINOIS!

3 Trumpets for entrance of (I) Justice, (II) Love, (III) Freedom.

Maestoso

last time.

4 SONG OF THE LAMP.

Andante. Chorus in unison

1. We fire__the torch of war, The

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flame our fathers bore In freedom's righteous wrath To glint their onward path Through years on darkling years of sacrifice and tears. Its glory shall not gloom--It tells the tyrant's doom.

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5 SONG OF THE LAMP (OTHER STANZAS)

L'istesso tempo.

We fire the torch of war, The flame our fathers bore In Freedom's righteous wrath To glint their onward path Through years on darkling years Of sacrifice and tears. Its glory shall not gloom -- It tell the tyrant's

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doom.

6 THE RED FRONTIER.

March time.

1. Warring for freedom our grandsire stood ON the old red frontier

2. Savage the foe man our grandsires fought On the old red frontier

Gaining our freedom with tears and blood Year after flaming year Shall we forget the great deeds they have done? Patriot sire have recreant son?

Mighty the triumphs their courage wrought Battling with hate and fear. Shall we fall back from a deadlier foe Tyrants and tyrannized waiting our blow?

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Never! Then on till the victory's won On our own red frontier

Never! Then onward for liberty go On our own frontier. Ah--On our own red frontier.

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7 SONG OF THE LAMP. FINALE

Undimmed shall glow its rays Till tyrants fear the blaze And from its sacred spark Go shrieking down the dark. As all our

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earth grows bright With liberly's [sic liberty] great light. Sound trumpets, roll the drums, For Freedom's army comes.

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8 FREEDOM AND GLORY.

9 AMERICA AND RIGHT.

Now gallant France with shining lance Stands forth against the foe, While Britain's sons man

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blazing guns, With Italy's arow. Shall we hold back from fire and wrack Or rise in freedom's might? We raise on high the battle cry: "A

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merica and Right!

Repeat accompaniment in strict time for entrance of Gallia, Italia, Britannia, etc.

12 FINALE.

Moderato. Quartet

Look up, ye sons of men, and see the star Clear shining through the wanlit night of strife! It

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spells th' eternal doom of bat-winged war; It speaks the faith that death must yield to life. Look up, Look up and smile, and smile through all of

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war's alarms, And in its splendor find earth's lasting good: See tyrants yield to Freedom's flashing arms! See ev'ry bugle bloweth Brotherhood!

Chorus

See

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Brotherhood! ev'ry bugle bloweth Brotherhood! Ah__Brotherhood! Ah__

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Strike, O ye sons of the West, for your lives__Freemen are ye!

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Strike for your homes, for your children and wives; __Bend not the knee! Strike for your God and the shrines He has blest! Strike for the graves where your forefathers rest!

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Liberty, victory ride from the West; Strike, Strike, Strike and be free! Strike O ye sons of the West, for your lives

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Freemen are ye! Strike for your homes, for your children and wives; Bend not thy knee!

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Strike for your God and the shrines He has blest! Strike for the graves where your forefathers rest! Liberty, victory ride from the West;

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Strike, Strike, Strike and be free!