That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. HOUSMANAle, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is the lover. ‘Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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