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 contemporary, Sir Walter Scott.)

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Sound, Sound The Clarion

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.

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