We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further; it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea
From The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How He Came to
Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913)
JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884-1915)
These words are inscribed on the clock tower at Stirling Lines,
Hereford, along with the names of those members of the
Special Air Service who have fallen whilst serving.
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