Poem by Alfred Edward Housman

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Could man be drunk for ever
        With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at morning
        And lief lie down at nights.

But men at whiles are sober
        And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
        Their hands upon their hearts.

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