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I HAVE left all upon the shameful field, / Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life; / Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield, / Degraded and disgraced, I leave the strife.
From him that hath not, shall there not be taken / E'en that he hath, when he deserts the strife? / Life left by all life's benefits forsaken, / O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.