To justify God’s ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMANI do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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White in the moon the long road lies.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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