\nwhat is one line of poetry/writing that lives in ur head rent free please share i would like to know\u00a0
these in the days when heaven was falling
the hour when earth’s foundations fled
followed their mercenary calling
and 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
- A. E. Housman, “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries”, the first and only poem I ever memorized, off an AP Euro History primary sources supplement where it was contextualized as a response to Central Powers boasting of their universal-draft troops advancing against the professional British Army
It’s 8 lines, but they live intertwined
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