“If I were a young man
With my bones full of marrow,
Oh, if I were a bold young man
Straight as an arrow,
I'd store up no virtue
For Heaven's distant plain,
I'd live at ease as I did please
And sin once again.”

—  Robert Graves

"Brittle Bones".
Country Sentiment (1920)

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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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