Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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1730 – 1809
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Who was Thomas Osbert Mordaunt?
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, 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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