Gostaria de saber se você está se lembrando de uma cena de Beserker Fury, de Fred Saberhagen .
Há uma cena em que o protagonista, Gift, e vários humanos foram capturados pelos robôs. Um do grupo é um humano descrito apenas como O Templário, e ele responde ao interrogatório cantando The Battle Hymn:
And the machine, in its untiring examination of human motives, only wanted to hear more of the Templar song:
The prisoner was ready to oblige:
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on!
Now this particular berserker, a computer or program evidently in command of the task force that was about to complete the devastation of the Solarian Gulf Fleet, wanted to know what a trumpet was, and how feet could possibly be jubilant. And the berserker, as before, wanted an explanation of the Templar song, and what it meant to the life units who seemed to draw strength from what they perceived as the presence and leadership of this mysterious God