“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”

— A.E. Housman

No. 6, st. 1. <br class="br"> More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

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English classical scholar and poet 1859–1936

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