I happened to be enjoying a few bevvies with my pal The Choirboy last night when, for no particular reason that I can now recall, these lines of Housman sprang into my mind - an epitaph from a First World War cemetery somewhere in the Mediterranean, I believe.
Here dead we lie, because we did not choose
To live, and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is - and we were young.
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
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