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I hadn't realized before where Robert Graves got the title for his WW1 memoir (or was Fagles inspired by Grave's title, since he was born after Graves published his war memoir?):
"But why weep now?
It’s over for us, over for them.
The dead can rest and never rise again;
no need to call their muster. We’re alive,
do we have to go on raking up old wounds?
Good-bye to all that. Glad I am to say it."
from Agamemnon,The Oresteia by Aeschylus (translated by Robert Fagles)
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