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"Omit deaths certain sharpness, life would lack The salt that lends it savour."
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Alfred Austin[W]henever one wants to cite something wise and true, one has to go ei — Alfred Austin
"[W]henever one wants to cite something wise and true, one has to go either to the ancients or to the eighteenth century for it."
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Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin's poems are little remembered today, his most popular
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"All imitation is exaggeration."
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"Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law, Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will."
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"I love the doubt, the dark, the fear, That still surroundeth all things here. I love the mystery, nor seek to solve; Content to let the stars revolve, Nor ask to have their meaning clear. Enough for me, enough to feel; To let the mystic shadows steal Into a land whither I cannot follow. To see the stealthy sunlight leave Dewy dingle, dappled hollow; To watch, when falls the hour of eve, Quiet shadows on a quiet hill; To watch, to wonder, and be still."
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"Lo, where huge London, huger day by day, Oer six fair counties spreads its hideous sway."
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"Friendship, tis said, is love without his wings, And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me."
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