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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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XXXVII. EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES

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A.E. Housman·1859–1936
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hese, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth's foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They stood, and earth's foundations stay;What God abandoned, these defended,And saved the sum of things for pay.
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