My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To childr… - Wilfred Owen

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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier. Regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War, he was killed 7 days before it ended.

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Native Name: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

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Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels,
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,
Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod.

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. - Wilfred Owen

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