• 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.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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1. because
2. nothing
3. sprung
4. which
5. young
6. think

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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. by : A. E. Housman

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