Majicman Notes

Death is the worst; a fate which all must try;

And for our country ’tis a bliss to die.

The gallant man, though slain in fight he be,

Yet leaves his nation safe, his children free;

Entails a debt on all the grateful state;

His own brave friends shall glory in his fate.

Pope’s translation of Homer’s Iliad

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