That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. HOUSMANNature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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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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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 do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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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To justify God’s ways to man.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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