The Tenth of September was a pro-Insurrectionist poem written in 2553, in the midst of the Battle of Agley by Victorian Independent State citizen Samuel Owen. Penned after witnessing the murder of seven VIS soldiers and militiamen once they surrendered to a group of UNSC Army airborne troops, the poem was found by several Victorian Independent Army troops seeking shelter in Owen's abandoned home. One soldier, Graham Oliver Graham, took a liking to the poem, and kept it with him. While in a temporary prisoner of war camp at Agley Airfield, before being transferred off-planet, he gave the poem to an old friend, Quinn Philip Quinn, who brought it with him when he escaped the camp. Handing it over to the now underground Victorian Independent State, under the orders of Nathaniel Wright, the poe