Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword <br />Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, <br />Heed not the corse, though a king’s in your path: <br />Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath! <br /> <br />Thou who art bearing my buckler and bow, <br />Should the soldiers of Saul look away from the foe, <br />Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet! <br />Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet. <br /> <br />Farewell to others, but never we part, <br />Heir to my royalty, son of my heart! <br />Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, <br />Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-saul-before-his-last-battle/
