His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
A. E. HOUSMANNow 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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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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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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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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