To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring … - Alfred Edward Housman

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To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.

Alfred Edward Housman

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Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems .

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Pen Names: A. E. Housman

Alternative Names: Alfred Hausman

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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away."

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But from my grave across my brow Plays no wind of healing now, And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night.

To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. - Alfred Edward Housman

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