Let's stay at our posts until the good work is finally done, and done well, with Christian cheerfulness and fortitude.

CS Lewis talked in "Men without Chests" about "the third hour of bombardment".

Elsewhere in that same marvelous work he said, so presciently "...And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible...In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful..."