From the winter’s gray despair, From the summer’s golden la… - William Ernest Henley

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From the winter’s gray despair,
From the summer’s golden languor,
Death, the lover of Life,
Frees us for ever.

William Ernest Henley

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William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor.

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Alternative Names: W. E. Henley

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Life — give me life until the end,
That at the very top of being,
The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
Out of the reddest hell of the fight
I may be snatched and flung
Into the everlasting lull,
The immortal, incommunicable dream.

What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

From the winter’s gray despair, From the summer’s golden languor, Death, the lover of Life, Frees us for ever. - William Ernest Henley

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