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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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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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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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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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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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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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Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
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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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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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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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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.
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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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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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