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One of this man's poems, which ends, "Stand and fight and see your slain, And take the bullet in your brain," is titled "The Day of Battle". He protested the trial against Oscar Wilde with the poem "Oh Who Is That Young Sinner", and addressed a work to a writer whose work is so bad that it kills a cow; that work is "Terence, this is stupid stuff". Another work is addressed to somebody who "will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out."  That work begins, "The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place." Name this English poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes "To An Athlete Dying Young".
One of this man's poems, which ends, "Stand and fight and see your slain, And take the bullet in your brain," is titled "The Day of Battle".
A(lfred) E(dward) {Housman}