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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. Scott had merely quoted a stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 34 of his novel Old Mortality.〔"Glory", Wikiquote website. Accessed on 2015-01-08.〕 ''One Crowded Hour'', Tim Bowden's biography about the Australian combat cameraman Neil Davis, takes its title from a phrase used in "The Call". ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Osbert Mordaunt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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