"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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About A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman was an English poet and classical scholar. He is best known for the poetry collection A Shropshire Lad and for influential editions of Latin texts. He served as a professor of Latin at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge.

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