Alfred Edward Housman


More Poems. 36. Here Dead Lie We Because We Did not Choose


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.






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