Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a [frozen] sea, I saw him drowning.If you

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a [frozen] sea, I saw him drowning.If you could hear, [on every ebb,] the bloodCome gargling from the [ice-]corrupted lungs.My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.– modified text from the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, born March 18, 1893, died November 4, 1918. Image sources in addition to The Terror (2018): [2] Daguerreotype of Lt. John Irving.[4] Etching of Frederick Schwatka’s 1878-1870 Expedition searching for the remains of Sir John Franklin’s crew on King William Island. [6] Engraving of part of the headstone for John Irving’s tomb in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. [7] Mathematics medal inscribed with the name John Irving, discovered beside the grave of an officer by Schwatka’s  Expedition on King William Island. [8] Engraving of part of the headstone for John Irving’s tomb in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, with the inscription “Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori,” a partial Latin quote from the Roman poet Horace, meaning “It is [sweet and] fitting to die for one’s country.”  -- source link

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