Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries  11688

Locations in Harold's Library

• The New Oxford Book of War Poetry (book)
• The Rattle Bag (book)
  • page 142
• 101 Poems Against War (book)
  • page 27
• Poetry of the World Wars (book)
  • page 92
  • in "World War One - Aftermath: 'Let Us Sleep Now ...'"
• Peace & War (book)
  • page 88

This work has the following connections with other works:

• Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries • MacDiarmid's poem is an answer to Housman's

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            [0] => These, in the day when heaven was falling, / %The hour when earth's foundations 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.|p
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