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Poem by Alfred Edward Housman


A Shropshire Lad. 45. IF it Chance Your Eye Offend You


IF it 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.



Alfred Edward Housman


Alfred Edward Housman's other poems:
  1. Additional Poems. 4. It Is No Gift I Tender
  2. More Poems. 46. The Land of Biscay
  3. More Poems. 40. Farewell to a Name and a Number
  4. Additional Poems. 2. Oh Were He and I Together
  5. Last Poems. 26. The Half-Moon Westers Low, My Love


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