The call to arms is sounding

The call to arms is sounding.  Claudia Frances Hernaman* (1838-1898). First published in Hernaman’s The Crown of Life: Verses for Holy Seasons (London and New York, 1886), in five 8-line stanzas. It was included in the Supplement (1889) to the Second Edition of A&M, and retained in A&M (1904). Because it was in the Supplement to the ‘Old Edition’, it was in A&MS, but it does not seem to have been reprinted since that time (1922). This may have been the consequence of its militant opening, although the remainder of the hymn is closer to the tradition of hard work in 19th-century hymnody, as in the stern opening lines of stanza 2: No time for self-indulgence,   For resting by the...