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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Killed
Cold
Happy
War
Fear
Running
Men
Insensibility
Veins

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Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
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And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling
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