A Soldier's Epitath

Epitath for the Unknown Soldier

To save your world, you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
–October 1953

W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, Edward Mendelson, ed. (Random House, New York, 1979). p. 435.

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