<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Secret Foe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When now to battle he shall ride,<br>The bravest of the brave,<br>Joan the Maid be by his side<br>And Michael, quick to save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not against man's most fell device<br>The shell, the gas, the mine;<br>These he shall meet with steady eyes<br>And courage half-divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, not the gaping wounds and red<br>And not the tortured sense,<br>And not the dying and the dead<br>And his own impotence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the joy of battle faints<br>And his hot blood grows chill,<br>Be near him, all ye soldier saints,<br>Lest Satan work him ill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest in the hour of his great fight<br>This foe should him assail,<br>The enemy that creeps by night<br>Strike through his coat of mail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sebastian of the arrows, haste,<br>Michael and the White Maid,<br>Lest in his splendid hour, at last,<br>The soldier be afraid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428732" data-title="The Secret Foe de Katharine Tynan" data-description="When now to battle he shall ride, The bravest of the brave, Joan the Maid be by his side And Michael, quick to save. Not against man's most fell device The shell, the gas, the mine; These he shall meet with steady eyes And courage half-divine. O..."></div> </div> </div>

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