Quotes - Dulce et decorum est

• 1.       Bent double, like old beggars under sacks

   Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge.

   
•  2.       Many had lost their boots

  But limped on, blood-shod.
• 3.       All went lame; all blind;

  Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

  Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
• 4.       Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

  Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.
•  5.       But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

   And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.
• 6.       Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

   As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
• 7.        In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

  He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
• 8.        If ... you too could pace

  Behind the wagon that we flung him in.
•  9.        You could hear, at every jolt, the blood

  Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs.
• 10.       My friend, you would not tell with such high zest ... The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

  Pro patria mori.