<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><p class="epigraph"></p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line">"Hark! now the Drums beat up again,</p><p class="line">For all true Soldiers Gentlemen!"</p><p>-- <em>Corporal John Brown, Grenadier Guards, 1854</em>. </p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line">"Life is no life to him that dares not die,</p><p class="line">And death no death to him that dares not live."</p><p>-- <em>Sir Henry Newbolt</em>.</p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line">"We saw not clearly nor understood,</p><p class="line">But, yielding ourselves to the master-hand,</p><p class="line">Each in his part as best he could,</p><p class="line">We played it through as the author planned."</p><p>-- <em>Alan Seeger</em>.</p><p></p></body></html> · Great War