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[Here dead lie we because we did not choose]

by A. E. Housman, 1919

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.

Tags: death, existential, war

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