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• Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Lochiel's Warning...
• Silence = Death.
• When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Ye Mariners of England...
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
  Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as time....
• There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,-- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Sonnet, Silence...
• Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep
  Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep....
• One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...
• Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
  Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree, It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free....
• Ye mariners of England, That guard our native sea
  Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!...