Author: Alfred Housman

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• Adrian Selby (1)
  • IN: Snakewood (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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 sun of things for pay.
    FROM: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries, (1917), Poem, UK