XXXVIII.

And these he called on; and, what 's strange, they came

Unto his call, unlike "the spirits from

The vasty deep," to whom you may exclaim,

Says Hotspur, long ere they will leave their home:—[430]Their reasons were uncertainty, or shame

At shrinking from a bullet or a bomb,

And that odd impulse, which in wars or creeds[IF]Makes men, like cattle, follow him who leads.

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