WAR POETRY  -  FROM MINDS AT WAR 

HERE DEAD WE LIE   -   BY A E HOUSMAN 

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      HERE DEAD WE LIE
Here dead we lie
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.

A E Housman
 
 
Large military cemetery

  
 
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