When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HOUSMANIn every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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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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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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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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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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