by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Good creatures, do you love your lives
Language: English
Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like other knives, That cost me eighteen pence. I need but stick it in my heart And down will come the sky, And earth's foundations will depart And all you folk will die.
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- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in More Poems, no. 26, first published 1936 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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