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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 blood
Come gargling from the [ice-]corrupted lungs.
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro 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.”