These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundation 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 sum of things for pay.
A E Housman
Saturday, July 30, 2005
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