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Sleep Soldier!

Still in honoured rest

Your truth and valour wearing

The bravest are the tenderest

The loving are the daring.

—Bayard Taylor, 1825–1878

Perhaps the essential lesson to be learned from…studies of Myles Keogh is how well the life of an enigmatic individual serves as a blank sheet to be written upon in whatever form suits the artistic will of the author….his mystique contains the very stuff of which legends are made.

—Myles Keogh: The Life and Legend of an Irish Dragoon, John P. Langellier, Kurt Hamilton Cox, and Brian C. Pohanka, eds.