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It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

John Masefield

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John Masefield
Age: 88 †
Born: 1878
Born: June 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 12
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
County of Herefordshire
John Edward Masefield
Pistols
Aeroplanes
Gangsters
Automatic
Ought

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.
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