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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXX

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Others, I am not the first,     Have willed more mischief than they durst:     If in the breathless night I too     Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.     More than I, if truth were told,     Have stood and sweated hot and cold,     And through their reins in ice and fire     Fear contended with desire.     Agued once like me were they,     But I like them shall win my way     Lastly to the bed of mould     Where there's neither heat nor cold.     But from my grave across my brow     Plays no wind of healing now,     And fire and ice within me fight     Beneath the suffocating night.

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