The Argument Before Battle

a poem

He was buckling on his shoulder plates, attaching them at the breast, 
When she came to him at the fireside with her quiver across her chest.
"There's torchlight on the hills," he said, "and horns sounding in the east."
"We'll be caught in between," she replied, "for they come too from the west."

"I go to the hills tonight," he declared, "where the wol…