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 | "The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come
all to church, good people"? Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will
come." | |
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| "Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are
those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? 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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Found in the topic Born.
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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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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." | |
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Found in the topic Alienation.
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| "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the
bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for
Eastertide." | |
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Found in the topic Tree.
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| "Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave And
miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave. And now the fancy
passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they"ll say that I Am
quite myself again." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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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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Found in the topic Life.
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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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Found in the topic Soldier.
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| "When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and
pounds and guineas But not your heart away."" | |
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Found in the topic Wise.
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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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Found in the topic Epitaphs.
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| "Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And
malt does more than Milton can To justify God"s ways to man. Ale, man,
ale"s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think." | |
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Found in the topic More.
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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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Found in the topic War.
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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.... The seat of
this sensation is the pit of the stomach." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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