Brewer's: Keep your Powder Dry

Keep prepared for action; keep your courage up.

Go forth and conquer, Strephon mine, This kiss upon your lips retaining; A precept that is also thine For bids the teardrop hot and straining. Were Mars and Venus, you and I, And both must `keep our powder dry.

Sims: Dagonet Ballads (In Love and War).

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