Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
A. E. HOUSMANTen thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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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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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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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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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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