"Far I hear the bugle blow
To call me where I would not go,
And the guns begin the song,
'Soldier, fly or stay for long.'
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This poem is an imitation of a famous passage of Homer, the speech of Sarpedon to Glaucus. in the Iliad. (There is another, totally different, imitation in Clarissa's speech in Pope's Rape of the Lock.)
Short and direct with a powerful story line. A poem to remember.
This poem is an imitation of a famous passage of Homer, the speech of Sarpedon to Glaucus in the Iliad.