The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Now I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me. - Alfred Edward Housman

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth’s foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth’s foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.