And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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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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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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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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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To justify God’s ways to man.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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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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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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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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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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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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