I seem to recall that there is a poem referenced in one of the later Honor Harrington books. It is about a soldier, and the poem basically describes Honor to a tee. I looked the poem up years ago and seem to remember it went something like this:
A soldier is... a soldier does... a soldier would...
Something like that. I hope someone can help me and tell me what it is called and maybe who wrote it.
David Weber made this remark in the afterword of "Uncompromising Honor":
If any single poem sums up Honor Harrington’s entire life, it would undoubtedly be Rudyard Kipling’s “If.”
The first verse of the Rudyard Kipling poem "If —" is:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
finishing with the somewhat inappropriate (for Honor Harrington):
you’ll be a Man, my son!
