beginning and ending

we're calm and steady not the flighty men
we've been portrayed as not the sons of fear
our courage has been tested year by year
and will be we don't doubt it once again
but nothing now and certainly back when
we were young can overwhelm or scare
who once have gone into the higher air
of action who have seen the monster's den
beyond this point only the toughest go
but sons of heroes have not need to test
what's known already that the greatest fight
is with the heart and with the teary flow
that comes along with pause to breathe and rest
but none will go unhonoured into night