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They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.Contents
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year
— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year
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—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26
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—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats
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