So, we'll go no more a roving the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine." The poem seems to have been suggested in part by the refrain of a Scottish song known as "The Jolly Beggar." The Jolly Beggar was published in Herd's "Scots Songs" in 1776, 41 years before Byron's letter, and goes partially
The Next War (poem) will replace them on the battlefield. It ends with: <poem> "Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! "We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. "No soldier's paid to kick against his powers. "We laughed, knowing that better men would come, "And greater wars; when each proud fighter brags "He wars on Death - for lives; not men - for flags."</poem> The Next War (poem) "The Next War" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in "The Complete Poems and Fragments". The poem