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Patrick Shaw-Stewart Quotes

1888–1917 Wales

Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was a British scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his "Achilles in the Trench", one of the best-known war poems of the First World War.

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I saw a man this morning
Who did not wish to die;
I ask and cannot answer
If otherwise wish I.

Stand in the trench, Achilles,
Flame-capped, and shout for me.

Oh Hell of ships and cities,
Hell of men like me,
Fatal second Helen,
Why must I follow thee?

Was it so hard, Achilles,
So very hard to die?
Thou knowest and I know not —
So much the happier I.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Shaw-Stewart (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.