One of my favourite remembrance-ish bits of poetry is only a few lines (must google for the rest) - I think it too is Housman:
Too full already is the grave
With fellows who were young and brave
...... and died because they were.....
Later.....
of course it was Housman .. and I've been misquoting him for years....
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough
The land and not the sea,
And leave the soldiers at their drill,
And all about the idle hill
Shepherd your sheep with me.
Oh stay with company and mirth
And daylight and the air;
Too full already is the grave
Of fellows that were good and brave
And died because they were.
.... a bit anti-war in its entirity, but I'll forgive Housman anything for his "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" ... but you can google that for yourselves!!
Last edited by teeteringhead; 7th Nov 2003 at 23:21.