Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries

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Title:     Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries
Author: A. E. Housman [More Titles by Housman]

These, in the day 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.

[The end]
A. E. Housman's poem: Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries

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