Auxiliar sword or purse will nought avail
To prop her sway, or 'stablish shaken power,
Not though she had the more than Danaë dower
Of all "the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind."
Fear must not shake and softness must not blind
The man, the people, who would lead and light
Progress's Army in the World's great fight.
Each nation finds, when Fate its courage tests,
Its last, best frontier is its soldiers' breasts.
War's sinews, though, wise captains won't contemn,