by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Stay, if you list, O passer by the way
Language: English
Stay, if you list, O passer by the way;
Yet night approaches: better not to stay.
I never sigh, nor flush, nor knit the brow,
Nor frieve to think how ill God made me, now.
Here, with one balm for many fevers found,
Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Additional Poems, no. 12, first published 1939 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Word count: 51