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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights. 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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Good night ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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