These Flags Of Armies Overthrown - Flags Fallen Beneath The Sovereign One In End Foredoomed Which Closes War; We Here, The Captors, Lay Before The Altar Which Of Right Claims All - Our Country. And As Freely We, Revering Ever Her Sacred Call, Could Lay Our Lives Down - Though Life Be Thrice Loved And Precious To The Sense Of Such As Reap The Recompense Of Life Imperiled For Just Cause - Imperiled, And Yet Preserved; While Comrades, Whom Duty As Strongly Nerved, Whose Wives Were All As Dear, Lie Low. But These Flags Given, Glad We Go To Waiting Homes With Vindicated Laws.