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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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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