Fife and Drum
The trumpet’s loud clangor
Excites us to arms,
With shrill notes of anger
And mortal alarms.
The double, double, double beat
Of the thundering drum,
Cries, “Hark! the foes come;
Charge, charge! ’tis too late to retreat.”
John Dryden.
From “The Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day.”