http://robertservice.com/the-soldier-of-fortune/ A blog devoted to the verse of Robert W. Service Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:54:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://robertservice.com/the-soldier-of-fortune/comment-page-1/#comment-8198 Of anthems and European identity… : AttiCusInk Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:34:58 +0000 http://robertservice.com/?p=14#comment-8198 [...] I’m reminded of Robert Service’s poem, Soldier of Fortune, set, appropriately, in a war in some bygone, colonial era.  The narrator is surrounded by tribesmen with spears, who order him to deny his God or die.  He searches his soul, and finds no reason, for God or country or ethnicity, to sacrifice his life.  And then he thinks of his true love, many miles away, and of what she would think of her living but dishonoured man. [...] [...] I’m reminded of Robert Service’s poem, Soldier of Fortune, set, appropriately, in a war in some bygone, colonial era.  The narrator is surrounded by tribesmen with spears, who order him to deny his God or die.  He searches his soul, and finds no reason, for God or country or ethnicity, to sacrifice his life.  And then he thinks of his true love, many miles away, and of what she would think of her living but dishonoured man. [...]

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