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Died some, pro patria, Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'… Walked eye-deep in hell Believing in… — Ezra Pound

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Died some, pro patria, Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'… Walked eye-deep in hell Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound
1920
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Horrors of warWorld War I
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Poem
Time
1920
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Ezra Pound
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Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

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