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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2004-10-16 06:00 pm
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Poetry meme

Toss-up between this and 'On Wenlock Edge', but this one wins by a nose.

Crossing alone the nighted ferry
With the one coin for fee,
Whom, on the wharf of Lethe waiting,
Count you to find? Not me.

The brisk fond lackey to fetch and carry,
The true, sick-hearted slave,
Expect him not in the just city
And free land of the grave.
-AE Housman, More Poems
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[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2004-10-16 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
My god- that *is* fast. Norway clearly Rates with our post office.