Dulce et Decorum Est
Men bent double like old beggars under sacks trudge back from the front line, deaf and lame and half asleep, when the gas shells drop behind them and the helmets go on just in time — not for everyone. The rest is what the speaker keeps seeing in his dreams, addressed straight at anyone at home who would tell children hungry for glory that dying for one's country is sweet and fitting. His most quoted poem; the Latin tag is Horace's, and it comes back out of the poem changed.
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- takes its title from ↑ Odes
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