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Originally Posted by Gregory Dowling
There is a brilliant essay by Richard Wilbur entitled "Round About a Poem of Housman's"...
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Great last few posts everyone. I regret my fooling around yesterday as this is good chat.
I found this poem by Pound. Is it about this same Housman? Just thought it interesting that it was the first piece I opened on after your post.
Song in the Manner of Housman
by Ezra Pound
O woe, woe,
People are born and die,
We also shall be dead pretty soon
Therefore let us act as if we were
dead already.
The bird sits on the hawthorn tree
But he dies also, presently.
Some lads get hung, and some get shot.
Woeful is this human lot.
Woe! woe, etcetera . . . .
London is a woeful place,
Shropshire is much pleasanter.
Then let us smile a little space
Upon fond nature's morbid grace.
Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera . . . .