Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land …

A. E. Housman
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. ✨ More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. ✨ More Poems (1936) no. 36

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