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Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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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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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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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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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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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
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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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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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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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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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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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