A.E. Housman's Quote - We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. – A.E. Housman

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About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow. – A.E. Housman

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