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1859–1936

XLV

Alfred Edward Housman

If it chance your eye offend you, Pluck it out, lad, and be sound: ‘ Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground.

And if your hand or foot offend you, Cut it off, lad, and be whole; But play the man, stand up and end you, When your sickness is your soul.

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