Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен))

Additional Poems. 14. Oh Is It the Jar of Nations

„Oh is it the jar of nations,
        The noise of a world run mad,
The fleeing of earth’s foundations?”
        Yes, yes; 1ie quiet, my lad.

„Oh is it my country calling,
        And whom will my country find
To shore up the sky from falling?”
        My business; never you mind.

„Oh is it the newsboys crying
        Lost battle, retreat, despair,
And honour and England dying?”
        Well, fighting cock, what if it were?

The devil this side of the darnels
        Is having a dance with man,
And quarrelsome chaps in charnels
        Must bear it as best they can.

1. Additional Poems. 16. Some Can Gaze and not Be Sick
2. More Poems. 18. Delight it Is in Youth and May
3. Last Poems. 21. The Fairies Break Their Dances
4. Last Poems. 13. The Deserter
5. Last Poems. 16. Spring Morning

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