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 SOLDIERS SOLDIERS


 * 1) Soldiers ##

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Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see the gay, the brave, the young, Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung! In joys of conquest he resigns his breath, And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death. | author = Addison | work = Campaign. To Philip Dormer. . | place = | note = | topic = Soldiers | page = 725 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|English}} under {{sc|Woman) Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! Byron—Don Juan. Canto III. St. 86. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Soldiers | page = 725 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. | author = Byron | work = Giaour. L. 675. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Soldiers | page = 725 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. | author = Cervantes | work = Don Quixote. | place = Ch. XXXIX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Soldiers | page = 725 }} {{block center/e}}