“What, still alive at twenty-two,
A clean upstanding chap like you?”
"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 1, line 1 (1933)
The opening of a Housman parody which the subject himself called "The best I have seen, and indeed the only good one." (Laurence Housman My Brother, A. E. Housman (1938) p. 180)
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