by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

I shall not die for you
Language: English 
I shall not die for you,
   Another fellow may;
Good lads are left and true
   Thought one departs away.
   But he departs to-day

And leaves his work to do,
   For I was luckless aye
And shall not die for you.

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