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Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809) a British officer and poet is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call’ written during the Seven Years’ War of 1756–1763: 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.For many years the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt’s contemporary Sir Walter Scott.