text:  _Brothers God grant when this life is o'er In the life to come that we meet once more_! See the smoke how the lightning is cleaving asunder! Hark the guns peal on peal how they boom in their thunder! From host to host with kindling sound The shouting signal circles round Ay shout it forth to life or death-- Freer already breathes the breath! The war is waging slaughter raging And heavy through the reeking pall The iron Death-dice fall! Nearer they close--foes upon foes "Ready!"--From square to square it goes Down on the knee they sank And the fire comes sharp from the foremost rank