And up spake brave Horatius,
The Keeper of the Gate.
“To every man upon this earth
Death comes soon or late.
And how may a Man die better,
Than in the face of fearful odds,
For the Ashes of his fathers
And the Temples of his Gods?”
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
And up spake brave Horatius,
The Keeper of the Gate.
“To every man upon this earth
Death comes soon or late.
And how may a Man die better,
Than in the face of fearful odds,
For the Ashes of his fathers
And the Temples of his Gods?”
–Thomas Babington Macaulay
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
Billy S.