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1859–1936

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Alfred Edward Housman

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.

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