Wilfred Owens poem, read by the brilliant Eccleston. Drawn from the Roman poet Horace. His poem is in text below. Owens is the video. A bitter irony, the title. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidove tergo. - How sweet and honourable it is to die for ones country: Death pursues the man who flees, spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs Of battle-shy youths. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:05:15 +0000