{"id":255,"date":"2021-04-05T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=255"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:51:03","slug":"and-he-said-fight-on","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/and-he-said-fight-on\/","title":{"raw":"\"And He Said, Fight On\"","rendered":"&#8220;And He Said, Fight On&#8221;"},"content":{"raw":"[footnote]E. Pauline Johnson died March 7th, 1913. Shortly after the doctors told her that her illness would be her final one, she wrote the above poem, taking a line from Tennyson as her theme.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n(Tennyson)\r\n\r\nTime and its ally, Dark Disarmament,\r\nHave compassed me about,\r\nHave massed their armies, and on battle bent\r\nMy forces put to rout;\r\nBut though I fight alone, and fall, and die,\r\nTalk terms of Peace? Not I.\r\n\r\nThey war upon my fortress, and their guns\r\nAre shattering its walls;\r\nMy army plays the cowards\u2019 part, and runs,\r\nPierced by a thousand balls;\r\nThey call for my surrender. I reply,\r\n\u201cGive quarter now? Not I.\u201d\r\n\r\nThey\u2019ve shot my flag to ribbons, but in rents\r\nIt floats above the height;\r\nTheir ensign shall not crown my battlements\r\nWhile I can stand and fight.\r\nI fling defiance at them as I cry,\r\n\u201cCapitulate? Not I.\u201d","rendered":"<p><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"E. Pauline Johnson died March 7th, 1913. Shortly after the doctors told her that her illness would be her final one, she wrote the above poem, taking a line from Tennyson as her theme.\" id=\"return-footnote-255-1\" href=\"#footnote-255-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Tennyson)<\/p>\n<p>Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament,<br \/>\nHave compassed me about,<br \/>\nHave massed their armies, and on battle bent<br \/>\nMy forces put to rout;<br \/>\nBut though I fight alone, and fall, and die,<br \/>\nTalk terms of Peace? Not I.<\/p>\n<p>They war upon my fortress, and their guns<br \/>\nAre shattering its walls;<br \/>\nMy army plays the cowards\u2019 part, and runs,<br \/>\nPierced by a thousand balls;<br \/>\nThey call for my surrender. I reply,<br \/>\n\u201cGive quarter now? Not I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve shot my flag to ribbons, but in rents<br \/>\nIt floats above the height;<br \/>\nTheir ensign shall not crown my battlements<br \/>\nWhile I can stand and fight.<br \/>\nI fling defiance at them as I cry,<br \/>\n\u201cCapitulate? Not I.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-255-1\">E. Pauline Johnson died March 7th, 1913. Shortly after the doctors told her that her illness would be her final one, she wrote the above poem, taking a line from Tennyson as her theme. <a href=\"#return-footnote-255-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-255","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/255\/revisions\/257"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/209"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/255\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}