You daring Sons of War!

You cannot purchase ere you die

One honourable scar,

Since that fair hand that gilded all your bays;

70That in heroic numbers wrote your praise,

That you might safely sleep in Honour's bed,

Itself, alas! is wither'd, cold, and dead:

Cold and dead are all those charms

That burnish'd your victorious arms;

Those useless things hereafter must