Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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'The sun in a golden cup' ... though not 'the moon in a silver bag,' is a quotation from the last of Mr. Ezra Pound's Cantos. W. B. YEATS.
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I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
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It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
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An old man's eagle mind.
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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