Corners in the Fight
Deeds
Above heroic, though in secret done,
And unrecorded left through many an age.
Milton’s “Paradise Regained.”
Who, doomed to go in company with pain,
And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain;
This is the happy warrior; this is he
Whom every man in arms should wish to be.
Wordsworth’s “Character of the Happy Warrior.”
An amusing things was to hear an officer of the Royal Irish shouting at the top of his voice, “Give ‘em hell, boys, give ‘em hell!” He was already wounded in the back by a lump of shrapnel, but it was a treat to hear him shouting: Pte. R. Toomey, Royal Army Medical Corps.
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