Who has not heard them? They say: We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning!

More from 'The Young Dead Soldiers'

• The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
• What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.
• I have little desire to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss of old friends. Or their sons.
• And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
• And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Oh breathe not his Name.
• Because I could not stop for Death--