<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? <br>Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: <br>Yours was not an ill for mending, <br>'Twas best to take it to the grave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh you had forethought, you could reason, <br>And saw your road and where it led, <br>And early wise and brave in season <br>Put the pistol to your head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh soon, and better so than later <br>After long disgrace and scorn, <br>You shot dead the household traitor, <br>The soul that should not have been born. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Right you guessed the rising morrow <br>And scorned to tread the mire you must: <br>Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, <br>But men may come to worse than dust. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Souls undone, undoing others,-- <br>Long time since the tale began. <br>You would not live to wrong your brothers: <br>Oh lad, you died as fits a man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now to your grave shall friend and stranger <br>With ruth and some with envy come: <br>Undishonoured, clear of danger, <br>Clean of guilt, pass hence and home. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking; <br>And here, man, here's the wreath I've made: <br>'Tis not a gift that's worth the taking, <br>But wear it and it will not fade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Edward+Housman">Alfred Edward Housman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341567" data-title="Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? de Alfred Edward Housman" data-description="Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twas best to take it to the grave. Oh you had forethought, you could reason, And saw your road and where it led, And early wise a..."></div> </div> </div>

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