Editing My Shield is Calling

; ''To me! To me! My shield is calling;
; ''for brothers to keep, and my enemy's falling.
; ''Now courage! Now wrath; that my kinsmen once bore
; ''have quickened within me and cry out "To War!"


; ''I see! I see! My father before me!
; ''My brother's and mother's and sister's dead glory!
; ''They call me to sea and to white ship departing
; ''Not ere or until my bright shield is done guarding.


; ''Our foe! Our foe! The battle's near done!
; ''From red sun arising to red setting sun.
; ''Our deeds cast immortal in Rivendell's sonnets,
; ''for I'll go home with shield high or my body upon it!''

(From the Battle of the Old Ford, 2946)