I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANGive crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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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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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 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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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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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