For country ’tis a sweet and seemly thing
To die.

[Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]

Odes [Carmina], Book 3, Ode 2, l. 13

Alt trans:

• "Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country." [J. C. Elgood,  The Works of Horace]