Quotation by A.E. Housman

East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.
A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859–1936), British poet. On the idle hill of summer (A Shropshire Lad, XXXV). . .

The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. (1965) Henry Holt.
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