We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
A. E. HOUSMANEarth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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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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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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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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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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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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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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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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