Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen - http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1...
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood /
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, /
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud /
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, /
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest /
To children ardent for some desperate glory, /
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est /
Pro patria mori.
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"DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country."
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"This early draft of Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" was dedicated to Jessie Pope, who published a series of poems supporting the war in the Daily Mail" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
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"Born in 1893, Wilfred Owen signed up for the Artists' Rifles in 1915. He was killed in action on November 4 1918, just a week before the war ended."
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Bugün radyoda bahsetti Garrison Keillor - "November 4 1918"
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