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I've had my share of pastime, and I've done my share of toil,
And life is short.


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A little season of love and laughter,
Of light and life, and pleasure and pain,
And a horror of outer darkness after,
And dust returneth to dust again.


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Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.


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I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

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In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

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Adam Lindsay Gordon

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Born: October 19, 1833
Died: June 24, 1870 (aged 36)
Bio: Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.
Known for:
  1. The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon
  2. Ashtaroth (1867)
  3. The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon
  4. Poems

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