Career
"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."
Foreign 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. One Crowded Hour, Tim Bowden"s biography about the Australian combat cameraman Neil Davis, takes its title from a phrase used in "The Call".
