“And now, my classmates; ye remaining few
That number not the half of those we knew,
Ye, against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death is set,
Ye I salute!”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 13.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

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