All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
A. E. HOUSMANWe now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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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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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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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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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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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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