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. Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy - till I woke up again. -Alfred Edward Housman

 

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. Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy - till I woke up again.


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Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day.

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298

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Alfred Edward Housman
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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. Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy - till I woke up again. -Alfred Edward Housman
192

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Alfred Edward Housman
191

This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

Alfred Edward Housman
183
Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all. -Alfred Edward Housman
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And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.

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