Go Tell The Spartans lyrics

Go tell the Spartans

All stayed until made to go

Lest even one soul were let down

There was no curtain drawn

No noble bugle sounding

Nor riotous rally of the troops

But a single day, a quiet one

Unremarkable in human annuals

It came and went insidiously

In its wake and preservation

There came a cold phantom

Gilded by guilt still surviving

Gone on to another world

One known, once thought so

Now forever gone to wander

Did that rustic world perish

Or did the ones returning die

Nostalgia succumbing equally

Go tell it to the Spartans

The field has kept its grasp

Upon the sodden spirit there

No one survives the aftermath

The sick, the lame, or the able

All carried upon shields in the end