Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), a British officer and poet, is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call', written during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763:
- "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
- Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
- One crowded hour of glorious life
- Is worth an age without a name."
For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemporary, Sir Walter Scott.
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“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
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