{"1": {"fulltext": "PR 5572\\n.R5\\n1899\\nCopy 1\\n4", "height": "2954", "width": "2324", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. CopjTight No.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "RIFLE-CLUBS", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Seventeen copies printed at the Marion Press,\\nJamaica, Queensborough, New- York,\\nNovember, 1899.", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "RIFLE -CLUBS\\nBY\\nALFRED TENNYSON\\nWRITTEN IN 1859\\nNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PRINTED\\n11\\nNEW-YORK\\n1899", "height": "2868", "width": "2243", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "l.lb\u00c2\u00abi-y er Covigrcss,\\nRegister of CopyrlgHt*\\nC( p}Tif;-lit, 1S!)9, by DoDn, Mead and Company.\\n51997", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "NOTE.\\n^N the ninth of May, eighteen hundred\\nfifty-nine, there appeared in the Lon-\\ndon Times Tennyson s poem, There\\nis a sound of thunder afar, there\\nentitled The War and signed simply\\nT. Its authorship was not acknow-\\nledged until long after, nor was it re-\\nprinted by the author until 1892, when it appeared in\\nthe volume The Death of Oenone, Akbar s Dream,\\nand other Poems, with the title Riflemen, Form!\\nand the note I have been asked to repubhsh this old\\npoem, which was first published in The Times, May\\n9, 1859, before the Volunteer movement began.\\nDoctor Alfi ed Gatty has said that he received the\\nmanuscript fi-om Tennyson, on May 5, 1859, with\\npermission that it might appear anonymously in some\\ncountry paper, as the Poet Laureate s name might not", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "be attached to a political poem. In that manuscript\\nwas another stanza, struck out before publication\\nForm, for France is dumb in her chains;\\nForm, for yours is the one free land;\\nYours is the one fi-ee voice that remains.\\nSave the voice, and practise the hand.\\nAt the time it was wi itten there seemed danger of\\na Continental alliance against England and an inva-\\nsion of the British Islands by the French. The poem\\nrang hke a trumpet-call through the length and\\nbreadth of the Empire, and may have been the\\ncause of the order issued by the War Office a few\\ndays later authorizing the formation of volunteer\\nrifle corps.\\nBefore he WTote and pubhshed this appeal to the\\nmen of England to rally to the defense of their coun-\\ntry he had, in the excitement of the times, WTitten a\\nmore vigorous poem, Rifle-Clubs, here first printed\\nfrom the original manuscript, which he sent, almost\\nbefore the ink was dry, to Coventry Patmore, from", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "whose family it now comes forth to the world. He\\nhimself says, in a note to the original manuscript,\\nVery wild, but I think too savage! written in about\\n2 minutes! The authorship a most deep secret!\\nmind, Mr. P.!\\nHis better judgment prevailed, however, and that\\npoem was not printed. In its place he apparently\\nwrote the milder one with the same refi*ain.", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "RIFLE-CLUBS", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "^^i^ Ji;\\ni.\\nV -3^^", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Riflemen, form, in town and in shire,\\nFrom John O Groat s house to the wild land s end!\\nPractice and fire, practice and fire,\\nGod, He knows what an hour may send.\\nReady, be ready, to meet the storm\\nRiflemen, form! Riflemen, form!\\nRiflemen, riflemen, riflemen, form", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": ",tH\\n4\\nV^^\\n4\\nV ^5^", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "We thought them friends and we had them here;\\nBut now the traitor and tyrant rules,\\nAnd Waterloo from year to year\\nHas rankled in the hearts of the fools.\\nWe love peace, but the French love storm;\\nRiflemen, form Riflemen, form\\nRiflemen, riflemen, riflemen, form!", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "I\\ni 5 ^t~^^", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Ready, be ready! they mean no good:\\nReady, be ready! the tunes are wild!\\nBearded monkeys of lust and blood\\nComing to violate woman and child!\\nWe love liberty: they love storm:\\nRiflemen, form Riflemen, form\\nRiflemen, riflemen, riflemen, form", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Workmen, workmen, away with your strikes\\nClose with your masters! sound an alarm!\\nGet you weapons, muskets and pikes!\\nClose with your masters, and arm and arm!\\nYou love freedom: the French love storm:\\nRiflemen, form Riflemen, form\\nRiflemen, riflemen, riflemen, form", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "fiEC 26 1899", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2863", "width": "2213", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 546 604", "height": "2948", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "rifleclubs00tenn_0048.jp2"}}