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/Episode36SoldiersLiveAndWonderWhyWizardsNeverStayDead-TheBlack
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 <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 <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:

Thanks for sharing that. Great job.


On 6/11/2017 11:20 PM, Stacey Harris wrote:
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.


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