An early page of The War Poetry website - 1999
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HERE DEAD WE LIE   -   BY A E HOUSMAN 
 
 
 
 
     
      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

  
 
Photo taken near Arras in France by David Roberts, 1995.
The poem and picture appear in Minds at War, the Poetry and Experience of the First World War.

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