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A.E. Housman
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“The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.”
“Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like other knives, That cost me eighteen pence. I need but stick it in my heart And down will come the sky, And earth's foundations will depart And all you folk will die.”
“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.”
“Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
“To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.”
“To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before.”
“The signal-fires of warning They blaze, but none regard; And on through night to morning The world runs ruinward.”
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