English Poetry. Alfred Edward Housman. More Poems. 36. Here Dead Lie We Because We Did not Choose. Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен).

Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен))

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.

Alfred Edward Housman’s other poems:

1. Last Poems. 19. In Midnights of November
2. Last Poems. 14. The Culprit
3. Last Poems. 20. The Night Is Freezing Fast
4. Last Poems. 27. The Sigh That Heaves the Grasses
5. More Poems. 14. The Farms of Home Lie Lost in Even

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