Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A. E. HOUSMANLook not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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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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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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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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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 malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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