Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
A. E. HOUSMANTo justify God’s ways to man.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Now 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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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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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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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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