There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.A. E. Housman
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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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers; After death has stopped the ears.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as straight a chap
As treads upon the land.
A. E. Housman
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