Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730 - 1809), a British officer and poet, is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call', written during the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763:
- "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
- Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
- One crowded hour of glorious life
- Is worth an age without a name."
For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemorary, Sir Walter Scott [1].
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- ^ Bernard Darwin, in his introduction to the first edition of the Oxford Book of English Quotations (available online)
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