To justify God’s ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMANWith 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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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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 silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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