The Guns of Two-Space (82 page)

Was there love once? I have forgotten her...

(and following four stanzas)

"Fulfillment," Robert Nichols

Chapter 3:
 

I am no Homer's hero you all know...

(Taken from the wall of the Frog Inn, British Special Boat Service headquarters, Poole, England. Author unknown.)
 

O loved, living, dying, heroic comrade...

"Fulfillment," Robert Nichols

No one is so accured by fate...

"Endymion," Longfellow

The fewer men, the greater share of honour...

Henry V
, Shakespeare

We live in deeds, not years...

Childe Harold
, Lord Byron

Chapter 4:
 

See the blood in purple tide,

"Sterret's Sea Fight," Anon.

(originally published in broadside format in 1801)

Chapter 5:
 

My only books...

"The Time I've lost in wooing," Thomas Moore

(All the other quotes by Fielder and Asquith in this section are from Shakespeare's
The Tempest
.)
 

There was silence deep as death...

"Battle of the Baltic," Thomas Campbell

The combat deepens. On, ye brave...

"Hohenlinden," Thomas Campbell

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole...

"The Wife of Bath," Alexander Pope

As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain...

Iliad
, Homer

He sinks into the depths with bubbling groan...

Childe Harold
, Lord Byron

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies...

"Janus," George W. Russell

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!...

"Old Mortality," Sir Walter Scott

Chapter 6:
 

O ye afflicted ones, who lie...

"The Goblet of Life," Longfellow

If I had thought thou couldst have died...

"To Mary," Charles Wolfe

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend...

"Philip Van Artevelde," Sir Henry Taylor

Lift ev'ry voice and sing...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson

(The first two verses of this song are included at the beginning of the chapter.)
 

Warriors throughout history have understood...

Drawn from Ben Shephard's excellent book,
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century
 

Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine...

"The Baron's Last Banquet," Albert Gorton Green

I could lay down like a tired child...

"Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples," Shelley

His food/Was glory...

"Phillip Van Artevelde," Sir Henry Taylor

Oft in the tranquil hour of night...

"Song," George Linley

And the tear that is shed...

"Oh breathe not his Name," Thomas Moore

The day is done, and the darkness...

"The Day Is Done," Longfellow

Chapter 7:
 

Beauty in desolation was her pride...

"The Wanderer," John Masefield

Gashed with honorable scars...

"The Battle of Alexandria," James Montgomery

Day is done...

"Taps," Anon.

I wanted the gold, and I sought it... (and following stanzas)

"The Spell of the Yukon," Robert Service

Chapter 8:
 

Sir Phillip Sidney's line from
Defence of Poesy
is drawn from John Barnes' excellent book
One for the Morning Glory
.
 

I have no doubt at all the devil grins...

"I Have No Doubt," Robert Service

I should not tell YOU how to fight...

"Bit of Doggeral," John Lang

(copyright 2004, used with the author's gracious permission)
 

True poetry to me has meant...

"Prose Poetry," John Lang

(copyright 2004, used with the author's kind permission)
 

O wad some Power the giftie gie us...

"To a Louse," Robert Burns

Nurture your minds with great thoughts...
 

All warrior quotes by Grenoble are cited in text and drawn from Thomas A. Taylor's definitive guide to the bodyguard,
Dodging Bullets: A Strategic Guide to World Class Protection.
 

"But there's been many places and times when people've thought of war as the given, an' peace the perversion...

(and)

"Ye who knowst what war is like shall find it almost impossible to communicate with the children of peace...
 

Are both derived from www.leesandlin.com, with the kind permission of the author, Lee Sandlin. The Dwarrowdelf accent and Sylvan affectation have been added, with much due apologies to the original author.
 

No coward soul is mine...

"No Coward Soul Is Mine," Emily Bronte

Chapter 9:
 

Back in Medieval days...

"Full Circle," John Lang

(copyright 1998, used with the author's kind permission)
 

Brain scan studies...

See www.killology.com and click the brain scan link for the Indiana University Medical School brain scan research.

My soul, there stands a country...

"Silex Scintillans," Henry Vaughn

Lenoria...

Any reader interested in learning more about Lenoria, and Tom Kidd's artwork, should look at
Tom Kidd,
Tundra Sketchbook
Series Vol. 11
, Tundra Publishing.

Now Mr. Boomer Johnson...

"Boomer Johnson," from
Classic Rhymes
by Henry Herbert Knibbs, 1999,
Cowboy Miner Productions
 

(used with the kind permission of the Knibbs estate)

Chapter 10:
 

Why buy a diamond...

From the book
Gaiku
, by The Venerable Professor Satori

(copyright 2006, used with the kind permission of the publisher, Armiger Publishing)
 

Books are the compasses...

Jesse Lee Bennett

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?...

"Sweet Content," Thomas Dekker

But to the souls of fire I give more fire...

Charles Kingsley, Chaplain to Queen Victoria

Chapter 11:
 

I went downtown, it was just to ease my pain...

"South Nashville Blues," Steve Earle
 

(copyright 1996, used with kind permission of Mr. Earl)
 

Oh, I've traded tomorrow for today...

Anon.

She can kill with a smile...

(and all remaining verses in this chapter)

"She's Always a Woman," Billy Joel
 

(copyright 1977, used under license from Impulsive Music, ASCAP)

Chapter 12:
 

When the gunsmoke settles...

(and all other stanzas in this chapter)

"Beer for My Horses," Toby Keith
 

(copyright 2002, used under license from Tokeco Tunes)

Chapter 13:
 

What the hammer? what the chain?...

(and all other stanzas in this chapter)

"Tyger! Tyger!" William Blake

Chapter 14:
 

Out of the night that covers me...

(and later stanzas in this chapter)

"Invictus," William Ernest Henley

Chapter 15:
 

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth...

"The Epitaph" from "Elegy in a Country Church Yard,"

Thomas Gray

Chapter 16:
 

Sometimes... when you cry...

Anon.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife...

The Wapshot Chronicle,
John Cheever
 

(as quoted in Thomas Taylor's superb book on the bodyguarding profession,
Dodging Bullets
, which is the source for all of Grenoble's quotes)

Chapter 17:
 

A thousand years scarce serve...

Childe Harold
, Lord Byron

Wert thou all that I wish thee...

"Remember Thee," Thomas Moore

Most humans truly are like sheep...

"The Sheepdogs," Russ Vaughn,
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division, Vietnam '65-'66

(copyright 2004, used with the author's kind permission)

Think where man's glory...

"The Municipal Gallery Revisited," William Butler Yeats

But yield who will to their separation...

"Two Tramps in Mud Time," Robert Frost

THE END