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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

A. E. Housman

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Knot Lover Sever Tie Untrue
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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God Justification Man One Liner Way
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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Donate Genuine Giving Heart Idea Inspiration Life Motivation Obscure Saying True
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Average Conservatism Criticism Man
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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Cup Drink Eat Meat
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Ears Earth Silence Worst
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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Fire Friend Hollow Light Shoulder
Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Choose Rid Words
White in the moon the long road lies.
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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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Collection Count Curse Himself Strength
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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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Afraid Face God Man Myself World

We 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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