Wednesday, November 26, 2008

My Orders Are To Fight



My orders are to fight;
Then if I bleed, or fail,
Or strongly win, what matters it?
God only doth prevail.

The servant craveth naught
Except to serve with might.
I was not told to win or lose,–
My orders are to fight.


--Welsh poet Ethylwyn Wetherald

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Shark Food said...

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