Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge, Gold that I never see.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain Tis Paid with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue. And I am two-and-twenty, And Oh, tis true, tis true.'
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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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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
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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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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great c. 135-63 B. C. had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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