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.
A. E. HOUSMANEarth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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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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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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