This poet wrote of a group who "took their wages and are dead" in his poem "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries."
This poet wrote of a group who "took their wages and are dead" in his poem "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries." "From Clee to Heaven the beacon burns" begins his poem "1887," the first of a certain collection. That collection also includes the lines "Malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man" in a poem beginning "Terence, this is stupid stuff," as well as "When I was one-and-twenty" and a poem beginning "The time you won your town the race/We chaired you through the market-place." For 10 points, what British poet's collection A Shropshire Lad includes the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young"?
This poet wrote of a group who "took their wages and are dead" in his poem "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries."
Alfred Edward {Housman}