In Dulce Decorum… (“It is sweet and fitting…”)

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidoque tergo.	How sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country: Death pursues the man who flees, spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs Of battle-shy youths.
—Ode III.2.13

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