These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's found…

A. E. Housman
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914. ✨ 1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914. ✨ 1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

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