Sunday, May 28, 2023

Poem for Memorial Day

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.

                            A. E. Housman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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