From Tyrtaeus

MEN of Sparta the gallant,
Sons of patriot fathers,
On the left arm bear ye the shield,
With the right the lance wield stoutly
Never grudging your lives
For ’tisn’t the way of Sparta.

Poem published in The Elizabethan, June 1915

 

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