by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
To stand up straight and tread the...
Language: English
To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and known nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.
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- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), appears in More Poems, no. 27, first published 1936 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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