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First Line: I have left all upon the shameful field
Last Line: O keep the promise, lord, and take the life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dishonor; Honor; War


I HAVE left all upon the shameful field,
Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life;
Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield,
Degraded and disgraced, I leave the strife.

From him that hath not, shall there not be taken
E'en that he hath, when he deserts the strife?
Life left by all life's benefits forsaken,
O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.






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