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A. E. Housman Quotes about Heaven

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

A. E. Housman
Strong, Heaven, Earth
A. E. Housman, “Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; The Arms You Bear Are Brittle”

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

A. E. Housman
Winter, June, Heaven
A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

A. E. Housman
Fall, August, Heaven
1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

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