summons (n.)
- alarm
- alarum
- beck
- bid
- biddance
- bidding
- birdcall
- call
- calling
- certiorari
- citation
- cite
- conscription
- convocation
- demand
- draft
- drafting
- enlistment
- enrollment
- evocation
- evoke
- garnishment
- impressment
- indent
- induction
- invitation
- invite
- invocation
- levy
- mobilization
- monition
- muster
- nod
- page
- press
- recall
- recruitment
- requisition
- reveille
- serve
- subpoena
- taps
- venire
- warrant
- whistle
- writ
summons (v.)
The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
