<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Day's Command</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plumed staff officer gallops<br>Along the swaying line,<br>That shakes as, beaten by hailstones,<br>Shakes the loaded autumn vine;<br>And the earth beneath is reddened,<br>But not with the stain of wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The regular shock of a battery<br>The rattling tumult stuns;<br>And its steady thrill through the hill-side<br>Like a pulse beneath it runs;<br>The many are dead around it,<br>But the few still work the guns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who commands this battery?'<br>And Crosby his clear, young eyes<br>From the sliding gun-sights lifting<br>As the well-aimed death-bolt flies,<br>'I command it today, Sir!'<br>With a steady voice replies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Answers as heroes answer,<br>With modest words and few,<br>Whose hearts and hands to duty<br>Even in death are true,<br>Though its awful light is breaking<br>Full on their blenchless view.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The officer passes onward<br>With a less troubled eye,<br>The words and the look unshaken<br>Bid every wild doubt fly;<br>He knows that the young commander<br>Is there to do or die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To do <br>and<br>die; for the battle<br>And day of command are done,<br>While stands unmoved on the hill-side<br>Each shattered, blackened gun,<br>And Crosby in death beside them<br>A deathless name has won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345738" data-title="One Day's Command de Anonymous Americas" data-description="The plumed staff officer gallops Along the swaying line, That shakes as, beaten by hailstones, Shakes the loaded autumn vine; And the earth beneath is reddened, But not with the stain of wine. The regular shock of a battery The rattling tumult st..."></div> </div> </div>

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