All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
A. E. HOUSMANStone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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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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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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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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