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“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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A. E. Housman
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Mar 26, 1859
 
Date of Death:   Apr 30,  1936
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
 
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