"Hark! now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldiers Gentlemen!"
-- Corporal John Brown, Grenadier Guards, 1854.
"Life is no life to him that dares not die,
And death no death to him that dares not live."
-- Sir Henry Newbolt.
"We saw not clearly nor understood,
But, yielding ourselves to the master-hand,
Each in his part as best he could,
We played it through as the author planned."
-- Alan Seeger.