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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
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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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To justify God's ways to man.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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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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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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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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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust Bear the fruit that bear you must Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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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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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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