“To keep through life the posture of the grave,
While others walk and run and dance and leap.”

— Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Sonnets of the Wingless Hours https://archive.org/details/sonnetswingless01leegoog (1894).

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English poet and translator 1845–1907

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