Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries
by A. E. Housman
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries, is perhaps the best known from his second poetry collection, Last Poems (1922). His best known volume was his first, A Shropshire Lad (1896).
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earths foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earths foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
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