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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.


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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.



That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.



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.

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.



Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.



Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.



On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.



The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.



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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.



Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.





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