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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
Classical Philologist
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A. E. Housman
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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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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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
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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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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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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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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
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