The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. HOUSMANAle, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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