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"To keep through life the posture of the grave, While others walk and run and dance and leap."
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Eugene Lee-Hamilton was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College in Oxford University, where he was a student. The prize is open to students of Oxford and of Cambridge University and continues to this day.
"To keep through life the posture of the grave, While others walk and run and dance and leap."
"Fourteen small broidered berries on the hern Of Circes mantle, each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypsos tears that rolled Into the sea, for pearls to come to them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold Fourteen small drops, which Fautus, growing old, Craved of the Fiend, to water Lifes stem"