These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth's foundations fled,Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They Stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay - A.E. Housman
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