This poem is taken from PN Review 76, Volume 17 Number 2, November - December 1990.
Notes on Mottoes(i)
Astra, castra,
Numen, lumen
Et munimen
'The stars my camp,
God is my lamp
And my defence':
Other men
Will say
'From hence-
forth' or 'An I may',
And one man
'Deccan'.
(ii)
Quidni prod sodali?
'Why not,
For a comrade?'
- So one Burnet,
A Scot.
But it is sad
To be totally
Unbriefed, and wonder Quidni
'Why not'
And then,
But why not - - - what?
So we imagine
Some episode of war,
...
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