To justify God’s ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMANStone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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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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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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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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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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