When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A. E. HOUSMANTen thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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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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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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