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Date Posted: 10:41:21 12/04/04 Sat
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: Here Dead We Lie by A E Housman (listen online mp3)

A E (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859 - 1936) poet and classical scholar wrote several poems during the first world war. This one written in 1914 elequently and concisely spells out the tragedy of young men cut down before their time in WW1.
Heres the link to where you can listen online to this and many other classic and original poems set to music....

http://tinyurl.com/5pya5

Regards

Jim Clark

PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to many of my my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web group (look in "files") heres that link.. #

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloozman_uk/

All rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 2004



Here Dead We Lie


Here dead we lie
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.

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