The old lie – Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Wilfred Owen wrote the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” in 1921, in memory of the first world war.
It’s every bit as relevant today as it was eighty years ago.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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