George Herbert Clarke, ed. (1873–1953). A Treasury of War Poetry. 1917.

Epigrams

“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.