<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519275" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Non-Combatant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among a race high-handed, strong of heart,<br>Sea-rovers, conquerors, builders in the waste,<br>He had his birth; a nature too complete,<br>Eager and doubtful, no man's soldier sworn<br>And no man's chosen captain; born to fail,<br>A name without an echo: yet he too<br>Within the cloister of his narrow days<br>Fulfilled the ancestral rites, and kept alive<br>The eternal fire; it may be, not in vain;<br>For out of those who dropped a downward glance<br>Upon the weakling huddled at his prayers,<br>Perchance some looked beyond him, and then first<br>Beheld the glory, and what shrine it filled,<br>And to what Spirit sacred: or perchance<br>Some heard him chanting, though but to himself,<br>The old heroic names: and went their way:<br>And hummed his music on the march to death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Newbolt">Sir Henry Newbolt</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=519275" data-title="The Non-Combatant de Sir Henry Newbolt" data-description="Among a race high-handed, strong of heart, Sea-rovers, conquerors, builders in the waste, He had his birth; a nature too complete, Eager and doubtful, no man's soldier sworn And no man's chosen captain; born to fail, A name without an echo: yet he..."></div> </div> </div>

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