"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction
“But whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!”
The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Dies ere he knows it.
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His hundred's soon hit;
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