There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of… - Edwin Muir

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There is a road that turning always
Cuts off the country of Again.
Archers stand there on every side
And as it runs time's deer is slain
And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir

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Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands.

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William Butler Yeats Alfred Tennyson Walter de la Mare T. S. Eliot Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
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