It Is No Gift I Tender

A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman

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It is no gift I tender,
  A loan is all I can;
But do not scorn the lender;
  Man gets no more from man.Oh, mortal man may borrow
  What mortal man can lend;
And 'twill not end to-morrow,
  Though sure enough 'twill end.If death and time are stronger,
  A love may yet be strong;
The world will last for longer,
  But this will last for long.
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A. E. Housman

1859 - 1936/EnglishAlfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their…

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