Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all … - A. E. Housman

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We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

A. E. Housman

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

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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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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

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