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Could Man Be Drunk Forever

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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A. E. Housman
1859-1936 / English
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