The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar also known as The Gaberlunzieman is Child ballad 279. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving." A beggar comes over the hills one day, and knocks on the door of a local farmer and asks for a roof for the night. Curiously, he will not accept a bed in the barn, but wishes only to sleep by the kitchen fire. Late at night, the farmer's daughter comes down to lock the kitchen door. The beggar and daughter exchange words, and fall in love. They sleep
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