A. E. Housman



A Shropshire Lad

If by chance
your eye offend you



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A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad


If by chance your eye offend you,
Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:
’Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,
And many a balsam grows on ground.

And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your sickness is your soul.




Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?

Bring, in this timeless grave to throw