Talk about happy little accidents. I have thought it must be a quote, but when I searched for it I only found Glen Cook being quoted for it. That and a podcast at https://archive.org/details/Episode36SoldiersLiveAndWonderWhyWizardsNeverSta... talking about the Black Company. I'm just starting the podcast, but it is sounding nice. Not as nice as that poem, but interesting. Richard From: "Steve Harris" <harrissg@slu.edu> To: "Science Glen Cook: Author, Fiction/Fantasy" <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 7:12:55 PM Subject: Re: [Glencook-fans] Soldiers Live--a villanelle Thank you all :) Been meaning to pen something like this for years. The announcement of the upcoming TV series spurred me on to re-read the whole series (just ~15 pages to go!). And so that spurred me on--just what sort of poem is it? And it came to me: gots to be a villanelle: catch-phrase needs repetition, and the formal villanelle structure then lays out for me how to fill in the rest. Then the theme; has to be a lot of grim-dark, but that shouldn't be all of it--there needs to be a turn, as well. And so then it was just filling out the syllables :) Stacey On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Lawrence Jenab < [ mailto:larryjenab@gmail.com | larryjenab@gmail.com ] > wrote: Yes, great job! Thanks for sharing. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM, B. Alan Wheeler via glencook-fans < [ mailto:glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com | glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com ] > wrote: BQ_BEGIN Thanks for sharing that. Great job. On 6/11/2017 11:20 PM, Stacey Harris wrote: BQ_BEGIN I long thought "Soldiers live. And wonder why." must be a quotation from a poem. But apparently not. I thought it should be. Soldiers live. And wonder why. Clatter and clash, the dice of fate. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die. Dawn arises, the sacred lie. Twilight lands with awful weight. Soldiers live. And wonder why. Promise beckons in youthful eye. Wisdom comes with later date. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die. The call is heard—to answer, fly! Meet the need when need is great. Soldiers live. And wonder why. Duty’s done; but needs still lie Unfulfilled, the hour late. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die. Strike the camp, pass on by. Honor calls; we shall not wait. Soldiers live. And wonder why. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die. -- --==From the mailbox of Alan Wheeler==-- A misplaced decimal point will always end up where it will do the greatest damage. _______________________________________________ glencook-fans mailing list [ mailto:glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com | glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com ] [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... | https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glencook-fans ] BQ_END _______________________________________________ glencook-fans mailing list [ mailto:glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com | glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com ] [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... | https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... ] BQ_END _______________________________________________ glencook-fans mailing list glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glencook-fans